The Last Notch: Volume 12 - Brossura

Hano, Arnold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1944520317 ISBN 13: 9781944520311

Casa editrice: Stark House Press, 2017

Riassunto

The Last Notch is one of five novels which Arnold Hano published under the pseudonym "Matthew Gant" in the 1950s and early 60s. This noir western was one of the first novels to introduce a black protagonist into the genre.

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Recensione:

“Fast-paced with strong characters in troubled waters way over their heads.”—Midwest Book Review

 

“A strong noirish and fatalistic tone to it, a tale that starts slowly but picks up speed as it goes along... you cannot predict which way it will go.”—Steve Lewis, Mystery*File

 

“A damn fine read.”—Evan Lewis, Davy Crockett’s Almanack

L'autore:

Arnold Hano was born in New York in 1922. His first job was as a copy boy at the New York Daily News in 1941. The next year he enlisted in the Army and served in the Pacific until 1946. After the war, Hano became managing editor at Bantam, then editor-in-chief of Lion Books, where he worked to develop authors like Jim Thompson and David Goodis. He has taught writing at the University of Southern California, Pitzer College, and the University of California, Irvine. He has also enjoyed a career as a freelance novelist and sportswriter, authoring many books on baseball, including the classic, A Day in the Bleachers. In 1955, he moved with his wife Bonnie and their family to Laguna Beach, California, where they live today. And now in his 90s, he still writes a monthly column for an environmental organization.

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• Editore: Stark House Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1944520317
• ISBN 13: 9781944520311
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232