![]() ![]() The narrative is often expressive and moody, not necessarily descriptive in a detailed picture sort of way but evoking a mental image nonetheless. The dialog is frequently short and punchy, as if the participants are talking over each other. This is not to say they are poorly written in any way. ![]() One might even consider them both the first and only draft of the book. Though the plotlines of these books have little in common, they are stylistically similar, written in a manner that suggests a raw, unpolished stream of consciousness. These are all stories of men in situations of their own making but somehow beyond their own control. The five novels are: Dark Passage (originally published in 1946), which may have been the inspiration for the television series The Fugitive Nightfall (1947) The Moon in the Gutter (1953) The Burglar (1953) and Street of No Return (1954). ![]() The Library of America has collected five of his works, edited by Robert Polito, all relatively short crime novels, some more well known than others, in the single volume David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s. Eighteen novels, several radio and film screenplays, countless pulp fiction stories. Review: From the late 1930s until his death at just age 39 in 1967, David Goodis wrote relentlessly. ![]()
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