With an eye towards the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, Panek comments both on the way it has changed since the 1970s and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hard-boiled writers: Robert B. Parker; James Crumley; Loren Estleman; Sara Paretsky; Robert Crais; James Lee Burke; and Walter Mosley. The new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the 20th century.
| ISBN: | 9780879728205 |
| Publication date: | 31st January 2000 |
| Author: | LeRoy Lad Panek |
| Publisher: | Popular Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |