The Expendable Man
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品牌: Dorothy B. HughesWalter Mosley
基本信息出版社:NYRB Classics (2012年5月29日)平装:344页正文语种:英语ISBN:159017495X条形码:9781590174951商品重量:367 gASIN:159017495X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do
to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore,
a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles
to Phoenix is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged,
would seem to have the world at his feet. Then why does the
sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him so? Why is
he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the
desert highway? And why, when she is discovered, dead, in
Arizona, is he the first person the police suspect?
Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia
Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books likeIn a
Lonely PlaceandRide the Pink Horseshe exposed a seething
discontent underneath the veneer of 20th-century prosperity.
WithThe Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes
upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver
a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the
greatest of all American crimes.媒体推荐"Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."—Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels
“You are rocked back by Ms. Hughes some fifty pages into her story, and I can certify that the effect is truly rocking. You even read past the vital word, just one word in a sentence of swift
dialogue, before you realize what it has said, and what a new and different light it casts on everything you have read up to that moment.” —H. R. F Keating
“A mystery writer who. . . in America was regarded as one of the great names of detective fiction. . . . Her real talent lay in an ability to create atmospheres of growing apprehension and
fear, a very modern approach at a time when Agatha Christie was producing her comparatively predictable puzzles. . . . Her last, and some consider her best, work of fiction wasThe
Expendable Man.” —The Times(London)
“Let me say that it is Mrs. Hughes’ finest work . . . of unusual stature both as a suspense story and as a straight novel and nowise to be missed.” —Anthony Boucher,The New York Times
“The suspense twist makes this tale a stand-out.” —Saturday Review
“To readThe Expendable Mantoday is to experience a mature work by a mistress of her craft.”—Dominic Power
"A surprise-twist gasper about a young doc who picks up a sick chick and gets framed by a hack dick for her kill" —Time
“One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense.” —Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels
"This lady is the queen of noir. . ." —Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels
“Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell . . .” —San Francisco Chronicle
"A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller." —John Hood,Bully Magazine
