The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780802776402
ISBN-10: 080277640X
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 1 x 8 page color insert
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 080277640X
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 1 x 8 page color insert
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
HAMMETT
AS
INSPIRATION:
His
characters-the
Continental
Op
and
Sam
Spade,
especially-have
inspired
generations
of
tough-guy
detectives,
from
the
likes
of
Raymond
Chandler
and
Jim
Thompson
to
Joseph
Wambaugh
and
Michael
Connelly.The
Lost
Detectivereveals
their
real-life
origins.
Notă biografică
Nathan
Wardis
the
author
ofDark
Harbor:
The
War
for
the
New
York
Waterfront.
He
was
an
editor
atAmerican
Heritage,
and
he
has
written
for
theNew
York
Timesand
other
publications.
He
lives
in
Brooklyn,
New
York.
Recenzii
Funny
thing
about
books,
some
of
them
are
a
delight
and
a
pleasure.
Thus
Nathan
Ward'sThe
Lost
Detective--yes
it's
very
well-written,
yes
the
history
is
carefully
done,
but
it
has
thatglow.
So,
this
you
will
like.
The Lost Detectivehumanizes my grandfather, while at the same time illuminating the context of his life and times. Links between Hammett's fiction and Pinkertons and his early (pre-Hellman) family life are particularly satisfying.
As a devoted Hammett aficionado, I've read most books about him and published his daughter's memoir, but learned so much in this captivating examination of the great author's life that I feel compelled to reread his complete works with far deeper understanding than ever before.
The Lost Detectiveis full of stimulating insight into how the novice writer shaped real-life experience into vital fiction.
Ward's focus on the origins of Hammett's writing style and his connecting the events of the author's background to the fiction are the highlights of this brief, accessible biography . . . Highly recommended.
As brisk and conversational as a magazine feature,The Lost Detectiveinvites readers not just to explore Hammett's early years in more detail and consider how those formative experiences helped shape his writing career, but also . . . to look at how the Hammett persona was created. And as we Hammett fans know, there are few personas, few writers in 20th-century literature period, more interesting to read about.
A gritty portrait of the 20th century's great pulp poet Dashiell Hammett, who turned his days gumshoeing for the Pinkerton Detective Agency into bawdy and muscular American classics.
[H]ighly entertaining . . . captures what it feels like to read Hammett's early work and, as Ward says, 'watch a sickly ex-detective in his late twenties, with an eighth-grade education, gradually, improbably, teach himself to write.'
Nathan Ward shows that Hammett's innovative style did not, as it may have seemed, spring fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus . . . With deft investigative work, Ward shows how much of Hammett's fiction owed to Pinkerton reports . . . a lively, witty account of how Hammett came to be Hammett--a portrait of the artist, if you will, as a cynical man.
[A] splendid biography of this keystone figure of American letters. Fittingly, there have been numerous biographies of Hammett . . . but none have explored as deeply his life before he became a writer. There can be little doubt that Hammett's work with the Pinkertons was the greatest influence on who he became, both as a person and as an author . . . Ward wisely chose to focus on Hammett's formative years.
Nathan Ward's book shines a detective's flashlight on Hammett's early development.
Hardboiled crime novel fans will find Ward's research into what it meant to Hammett to be an actual detective before he wrote about them quite fascinating.
With its sharp focus and strong hook,The Lost Detectiveis a fascinating read [that] casts Hammett in a new and intriguing light.
Investigative biographer Nathan Ward brings those offstage influences alive inThe Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. . . Ward's own narrative pace and procedure are not unlike his subject's--smart, terse and entertaining. The story has been told before but never with such rigor, verve and thoughtful attention to the formative years of the man who providedThe Maltese Falcon(1929) andThe Thin Man(1933).
Beguiling . . .The Lost Detectiveis a dazzling display of literary detection.
The Lost Detectivehumanizes my grandfather, while at the same time illuminating the context of his life and times. Links between Hammett's fiction and Pinkertons and his early (pre-Hellman) family life are particularly satisfying.
As a devoted Hammett aficionado, I've read most books about him and published his daughter's memoir, but learned so much in this captivating examination of the great author's life that I feel compelled to reread his complete works with far deeper understanding than ever before.
The Lost Detectiveis full of stimulating insight into how the novice writer shaped real-life experience into vital fiction.
Ward's focus on the origins of Hammett's writing style and his connecting the events of the author's background to the fiction are the highlights of this brief, accessible biography . . . Highly recommended.
As brisk and conversational as a magazine feature,The Lost Detectiveinvites readers not just to explore Hammett's early years in more detail and consider how those formative experiences helped shape his writing career, but also . . . to look at how the Hammett persona was created. And as we Hammett fans know, there are few personas, few writers in 20th-century literature period, more interesting to read about.
A gritty portrait of the 20th century's great pulp poet Dashiell Hammett, who turned his days gumshoeing for the Pinkerton Detective Agency into bawdy and muscular American classics.
[H]ighly entertaining . . . captures what it feels like to read Hammett's early work and, as Ward says, 'watch a sickly ex-detective in his late twenties, with an eighth-grade education, gradually, improbably, teach himself to write.'
Nathan Ward shows that Hammett's innovative style did not, as it may have seemed, spring fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus . . . With deft investigative work, Ward shows how much of Hammett's fiction owed to Pinkerton reports . . . a lively, witty account of how Hammett came to be Hammett--a portrait of the artist, if you will, as a cynical man.
[A] splendid biography of this keystone figure of American letters. Fittingly, there have been numerous biographies of Hammett . . . but none have explored as deeply his life before he became a writer. There can be little doubt that Hammett's work with the Pinkertons was the greatest influence on who he became, both as a person and as an author . . . Ward wisely chose to focus on Hammett's formative years.
Nathan Ward's book shines a detective's flashlight on Hammett's early development.
Hardboiled crime novel fans will find Ward's research into what it meant to Hammett to be an actual detective before he wrote about them quite fascinating.
With its sharp focus and strong hook,The Lost Detectiveis a fascinating read [that] casts Hammett in a new and intriguing light.
Investigative biographer Nathan Ward brings those offstage influences alive inThe Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett. . . Ward's own narrative pace and procedure are not unlike his subject's--smart, terse and entertaining. The story has been told before but never with such rigor, verve and thoughtful attention to the formative years of the man who providedThe Maltese Falcon(1929) andThe Thin Man(1933).
Beguiling . . .The Lost Detectiveis a dazzling display of literary detection.