Dark Passage
By David Goodis.
First published 1946.
ISBN 13: 9781598534467
ISBN 10: 1598534467
ASIN: B00TNBOFUI
Description:
The story of a man
railroaded for his wife’s murder and forced to assume a different identity
after escaping from prison becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of
urban fear and loneliness. A fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair,
he finds refuge with a beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish
plot.
First published as a
magazine serial, Dark Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves.
Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, it is regarded as a classic of noir
filmmaking.
For the first time, the
best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in
authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis
experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the
basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Other
David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall,
The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.
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