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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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128 p. 1st edition, paperback original from Lion (#186), 1954. GOOD only with corner chip, paper loss to front cover, crimp across spine. Great Robert Maguire cover art.
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Fair. Lion Original #186 January 1954 (128 pages all present). Book is in general worn condition, light creases, small tears and nicks. "Nothing. That's what his life was. No job. No money. No girl. He grubbed handouts, shot pool, and swilled cheap whiskey. The days stretched out, gray and unending, filled with the ache of desires dammed up. And then he met her." (No ISBN)
I first stumbled across David Goodis quite by accident. The newspaper was running an article about the local fan club and the book show/sale they were having. I was totally fascinated by this author. He was a native of Philadelphia and began writing back in the 30's. He also wrote Dark Passage which became the well known Bogey and Bacall flick. Goodis' main character in The Blonde on the Street Corner is Ralph. His last name doesn't really matter because the guy doesn?t stand a chance of succeeding. He's down on his luck and remains so until the end. Goodis has the pulp fiction genre down to a fine art. Ralph is 24 years old and still lives with his parent and his 2 sisters. He is unemployed and by all accounts likely to remain so. He spends some time taking long walks at night at a nearby lake. He does take an interest in a young woman but walks away from that too just as he walks away from a steady job or anything that?s too difficult. We can almost smell the cigarette smoke in the pool halls and the blonde floozy?s cheap dime store perfume. We can almost feel the chilling cold of the dark streets and the stale musty air of dilapidated apartments. The floozy is easy so of course Ralph falls for her and can?t walk away. Goodis spins a tale of a guy who was born to be a loser. He can?t pull himself out of the hole he?s in and just keeps kidding himself that things will get better. But the reader knows only too well that nothing will change. In this respect the novel can be depressing because you know this guy is doomed to fail. But you can?t help getting caught up in the atmosphere of cheap bars and the hair brained schemes of Ralph and his likewise down-on-their luck compatriots. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in entering into the world of pulp fiction. David Goodis knows his stuff.
