Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review The father of modern noir first wanted to be the second F. Scott Fitzgerald. This 1932 novel brilliantly showcases Cornell Woolrich's transition from modernist to pulp master, as the reader follows a young Manhattan couples' tragic fall from grace. Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the ...
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Nothing beats a tale of fatalistic dread by the supreme master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. His novels and hundreds of short stories define the essence of noir nihilism.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review The father of modern noir first wanted to be the second F. Scott Fitzgerald. This 1932 novel brilliantly showcases Cornell Woolrich's transition from modernist to pulp master, as the reader follows a young Manhattan couples' tragic fall from grace. Cornell Woolrich reinvented suspense fiction for the twentieth century. For four decades hundreds of his stories appeared in popular American pulp magazines while motion picture directors as varied as Hitchcock and Truffaut memorably translated his work into such classic suspense films as Rear Window and The Bride Wore Black, He died, alone in a Manhattan hotel room, in 1968.
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Fair. May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.
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Good. This is an ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. The dust jacket is a little smudged with light shelf wear. The outer edges are a bit smudged as well. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
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Clean & Unmarked in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; First thus with a new introduction by Francis M Nevins, Jr. A very nice clean & straight copy in a gorgeous dust-jacket with only a 2 mm faint scuff on front dust-jacket. Very pretty, nearly new. 256 pp.
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First Edition. First Edition (1932) in beautiful full facsimile dust jacket, with the date "1932" on the title and copyright pages; GOOD in yellow-stamped blue cloth boards; shelf wear to edges and extrems; softening and moderate fraying/chipping to spine ends; corners bumped and frayed; rubbing to boards and spine; light vertical creasing to spine cloth; slight spine lean; a few very minor signature separations/pulls; pp. 127/128 has fold crease to bottom corner; very light toning to edges; else a clean and.