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Indlæser... The Burglar (1953)af David Goodis
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Cost of Honor Nat Harbin is a master burglar and an honorable man by his estimation, at least when it comes to his small family of thieves, and especially to his young female charge Gladden. Harbin and his crew, Baylock, Dohmer, and Gladden, live together in a small apartment in a seamier section of Philadelphia. Each has a specific skill: Harbin the burglar; Baylock the loot evaluator, fence contact, and lookout; Dohmer the lookout and muscle; and Gladden the scout. Gladden holds a special place for Harbin because her father took Harbin in when he was a casted out boy and taught him the trade. When Gladden’s father died on a job, Harbin promised himself he would always take care of the daughter, regarding it as a debt and the honorable thing to do. The novel opens with the group in the act of stealing emeralds from a mansion on the Main Line. Two cops on patrol spot their getaway car parked on the street. Harbin stops his work on the house safe and bamboozles the cops with a story about breaking down. They buy it and Harbin and the crew finish the job. Unknown to them, however, is that one of the cops is dirty and has his own illicit operation of stealing from thieves. Charley, the cop, doesn’t directly confront Harbin. Rather, he employs an elaborate ruse using his girlfriend Della to lure Harbin away from his family and grab the jewels. That doesn’t work because Della falls for Harbin. Harbin has been mulling over leaving the crew and falling for Della seals the deal. But has hard as he tries to leave, he can’t break his ties to Gladden. After lots of machinations involving kicking Gladden out, then following her to Atlantic City, where Charley has snared her in a honey trap, then going to Atlantic City to retrieve her, getting in a shootout with cops, and more, Charley and Harbin face-off on an Atlantic City beach, Gladden kills Charley to save Harbin, and the pair swim out into the ocean to elude capture, where both drown. Before the fatal face-off with Charley, Harbin and Gladden have a heart to heart. Gladden tells him that she loves him, always has. Harbin, older than her, can’t return the love in the way Gladden desires. To him, she his little sister, or he her father. It’s this dilemma that leads Harbin to sacrifice himself in the end by diving deep in the ocean to save Gladden, though he could have easily left her and survived. David Goodis was popular in his day. He also worked in Hollywood writing scripts. When Hollywood filmed The Burglar, he wrote the screenplay, the only full screenwriting credit he received in his career. The story underwent a good deal of alteration for the screen, particularly the ending. Modern readers will probably find much of the novel a bit of a stretch, but not the commitment of Harbin to Gladden, her yearning for him, and his struggle to fulfill his oath and preserve his personal honor. Cost of Honor Nat Harbin is a master burglar and an honorable man by his estimation, at least when it comes to his small family of thieves, and especially to his young female charge Gladden. Harbin and his crew, Baylock, Dohmer, and Gladden, live together in a small apartment in a seamier section of Philadelphia. Each has a specific skill: Harbin the burglar; Baylock the loot evaluator, fence contact, and lookout; Dohmer the lookout and muscle; and Gladden the scout. Gladden holds a special place for Harbin because her father took Harbin in when he was a casted out boy and taught him the trade. When Gladden’s father died on a job, Harbin promised himself he would always take care of the daughter, regarding it as a debt and the honorable thing to do. The novel opens with the group in the act of stealing emeralds from a mansion on the Main Line. Two cops on patrol spot their getaway car parked on the street. Harbin stops his work on the house safe and bamboozles the cops with a story about breaking down. They buy it and Harbin and the crew finish the job. Unknown to them, however, is that one of the cops is dirty and has his own illicit operation of stealing from thieves. Charley, the cop, doesn’t directly confront Harbin. Rather, he employs an elaborate ruse using his girlfriend Della to lure Harbin away from his family and grab the jewels. That doesn’t work because Della falls for Harbin. Harbin has been mulling over leaving the crew and falling for Della seals the deal. But has hard as he tries to leave, he can’t break his ties to Gladden. After lots of machinations involving kicking Gladden out, then following her to Atlantic City, where Charley has snared her in a honey trap, then going to Atlantic City to retrieve her, getting in a shootout with cops, and more, Charley and Harbin face-off on an Atlantic City beach, Gladden kills Charley to save Harbin, and the pair swim out into the ocean to elude capture, where both drown. Before the fatal face-off with Charley, Harbin and Gladden have a heart to heart. Gladden tells him that she loves him, always has. Harbin, older than her, can’t return the love in the way Gladden desires. To him, she his little sister, or he her father. It’s this dilemma that leads Harbin to sacrifice himself in the end by diving deep in the ocean to save Gladden, though he could have easily left her and survived. David Goodis was popular in his day. He also worked in Hollywood writing scripts. When Hollywood filmed The Burglar, he wrote the screenplay, the only full screenwriting credit he received in his career. The story underwent a good deal of alteration for the screen, particularly the ending. Modern readers will probably find much of the novel a bit of a stretch, but not the commitment of Harbin to Gladden, her yearning for him, and his struggle to fulfill his oath and preserve his personal honor. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author ofShoot the Piano Player. Nat Harbin is a family man. His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess her. But you don't get away from family that easily. The Burglarhas the hallmarks that made David Goodis one of the great practitioners of the hard-boiled crime novel: a haunting identification with life's losers, and a hero who finds out who he is only by betraying everything he believes in. No library descriptions found. |
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