Pulp Fictions (Fiction Anthology) by Peter Haining

Format: Trade paperback

Condition: vg- condition, minor shelf wear

Size: 5.25"x8.0"

Pages: 332pp, 1996 Barnes & Noble, Inc books edition

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A unique blend of rapid-fre action and cynical humor is the hallmark of the storytelling style developed by such writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Those two pastmasters are joined here by eighteen other gifted and innovative practitioners of the art, among them Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard, Ross Macdonald, and Jim Thompson. To demonstrate the fascination that pul fiction has exerted on superb writers more often associated with other generes and artforms, stories by Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino are also included.

The world outside may often seem gray. But the hard-drinking, two-fisted, apparently indestructible private eye still lives int he pages of Pul Fictions. What lover of fast-paced, fast-talking stories with durable, if somewhat dubious, heroes could ressit this unrivaled ocllection?