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This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism.

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      Publisher: McFarland & Company
      Publication Date: 9/30/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786418992, 978-0786418992
      ISBN10: 0786418990

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      Book Synopsis
      This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism.

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