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Dashiell Hammett
Sally Cline
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Description for Dashiell Hammett
Hardback. Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family and Hellman's heir, to reexamine his life and works. Num Pages: 264 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 8 x 5 x 140. Weight in Grams: 355.
Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade—immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon—and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex and enigmatic man. After 1934 until his death in 1961, he published no more novels and suffered from a writer’s block that both shamed and ... Read more
Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade—immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon—and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex and enigmatic man. After 1934 until his death in 1961, he published no more novels and suffered from a writer’s block that both shamed and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781611457841
SKU
V9781611457841
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Ref
99-15
About Sally Cline
Sally Cline is an award-winning writer and scholar and the author of twelve books, including the biographies Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John and Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jaszz Age's High Priestess, published by Arcade Publishing. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2013 was one of the three judges ... Read more
Reviews for Dashiell Hammett
VERDICT: Man of Mystery delivers the goods on Hammett, in brief. . . . Keeping her subject squarely in focus, [Cline] offers a fairly succinct overview of his personality and career. Her analyses of his novels including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, are lean. . . . What is found in abundance are salacious details, presented in ... Read more