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Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century. His unnerving tales of the psychological terrors lurking on the underside of the commonplace earned Woolrich epithets like "our poet of the shadows," the twentieth century’s Edgar Allan Poe, and the father of noir.
The twilight years of Woolrich’s career did not soften his vision; they darkened it, as the selections in Tonight, Somewhere in New York rivetingly show. In addition to nine masterful stories from the late 1950s and 1960s, and some that were never before collected, this Woolrich anthology offers two evocative episodes from the autobiographical manuscript on which he worked during his latter years, as well as five chapters of the novel he left unfinished at the time of his death in 1968.
Page after suspenseful page, this collection amply demonstrates the power of the author's vision. Ordinary individuals get caught up in everyday circumstances that spin perversely, often murderously, out of their control. Unexpected perils lie in wait everywhere — in a hotel corridor, in the insistent ring of a telephone, on a street one day in Rome, or inside a black sedan that without wheels would look like a coffin.
The twilight years of Woolrich’s career did not soften his vision; they darkened it, as the selections in Tonight, Somewhere in New York rivetingly show. In addition to nine masterful stories from the late 1950s and 1960s, and some that were never before collected, this Woolrich anthology offers two evocative episodes from the autobiographical manuscript on which he worked during his latter years, as well as five chapters of the novel he left unfinished at the time of his death in 1968.
Page after suspenseful page, this collection amply demonstrates the power of the author's vision. Ordinary individuals get caught up in everyday circumstances that spin perversely, often murderously, out of their control. Unexpected perils lie in wait everywhere — in a hotel corridor, in the insistent ring of a telephone, on a street one day in Rome, or inside a black sedan that without wheels would look like a coffin.
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- EditoreCarroll & Graf Pub
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0786717971
- ISBN 13 9780786717972
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine304
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