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Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction

Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines.

Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations -- stark, bonelike, disturbing books.

We're pleased to make Difficult Lives available again, doubling your pleasure by pairing it with Hitching Rides, an equal volume of new essays on other crime writers including Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson.

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

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Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction Originally published... Read more

    Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
    Publication Date: 22/11/2018
    ISBN13: 9780857302564, 978-0857302564
    ISBN10: 0857302566

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies

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    Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction

    Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines.

    Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations -- stark, bonelike, disturbing books.

    We're pleased to make Difficult Lives available again, doubling your pleasure by pairing it with Hitching Rides, an equal volume of new essays on other crime writers including Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson.

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