MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 140723t20152015nyu 000 1 eng d
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020 $a9781598533767 (hbk.)
020 $a1598533762 (hbk.)
024 3 $a9781598533767
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn895301570
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050 00 $aPS3525.I486$bA6 2015
082 04 $a813/.52$223
100 1 $aMacdonald, Ross,$d1915-1983,$eauthor.
240 10 $aNovels.$kSelections
245 10 $aFour novels of the 1950s /$cRoss Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.
246 18 $aCrime novels of the 1950s
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe Library Of America,$c[2015]
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a926 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe library of America ;$v264
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 917-926).
520 $a"Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, praised by Eudora Welty as "a more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were," Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel a new realism and psychological depth and a unique gift for intricately involving mystery narratives. For his centennial, The Library of America inaugurates its Macdonald edition with four classic novels from the 1950s, all featuring his incomparable protagonist, private investigator Lew Archer. Set against the background of a glittering yet darkly enigmatic Southern California, Macdonald's books are both unsurpassed entertainments and emotionally powerful evocations of an outwardly prosperous, inwardly turbulent America. Macdonald mastered the hard-boiled detective form early on and brought to it a prose style of extraordinary beauty. The four novels collected in the volume reveal him broadening the genre into an intensely personal means of expression, transforming the tragedies and dislocations of his own life into haunting fiction. "My interest," he wrote to his publisher, "is the exploration of lives."
505 00 $tThe way some people die --$tThe barbarous coast --$tThe doomsters --$tThe Galton case.
505 00 $gOther writings.$tLetter to Alfred A. Knopf --$tThe writer as detective hero --$tPreface to Archer in Hollywood --$tWriting The Galton case --$tDown these streets a mean man must go.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, American.
700 1 $aNolan, Tom,$eeditor.
700 12 $aMacdonald, Ross,$d1915-1983.$tWay some people die.
740 02 $aWay some people die.
740 02 $aBarbarous coast.
740 02 $aDoomsters.
740 02 $aGalton case.
830 0 $aLibrary of America ;$v264.