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Book

The best American noir of the century

Call Number

  • FICTION BEST (CEN)

Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Physical Description

xiv, 731 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Spurs / Pastorale / You'll always remember me / Gun crazy / Nothing to worry about / The homecoming / Man in the dark / The lady says die! / Professional man / The hunger / The gesture / The last spin / Forever after / For the rest of her life / The dripping / Slowly, slowly in the wind / Iris / A ticket out / Since I don't have you / Texas city, 1947 / Mefisto in onyx / Out there in the darkness / Hot spings / The weekender / Faithless / Poachers / Like a bone in the throat / Crack / Running out of dog / The paperhanger / Midnight emissions / When the women come out to dance / Controlled burn / All through the house / What she offered / Her lord and master / Stab / The hoarder / Missing the morning bus

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