Howard Schoenfeld (1915–2004)
Forfatter af Let Them Eat Bullets
Værker af Howard Schoenfeld
Built Down Logically [short story] 2 eksemplarer
Associated Works
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1970) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1915-01-02
- Dødsdag
- 2004-09-26
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Dødssted
- Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
New York, New York, USA
Medlemmer
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Let Them Eat Bullets af Howard Schoenfeld
Murky but atmospheric noir tale set in New York City and Hot Springs, Arkansas holds your attention with its fast-paced narrative and attitude - but puts the brakes on before the end and spends the last 21 pages (of a 152 pages of text) explaining how the private eye figured out who the killer was! This is the only novel Schoenfeld, a very interesting character, ever wrote. While intended as a send-up of the hardboiled genre, it isn't that different from a lot of novels that probably thought they were being serious. It is hard to send-up a genre that is to a significant extent composed on send-ups.… (mere)
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- Popularitet
- #654,391
- Vurdering
- 3.7
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