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Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 by Dashiell Hammett (2002, Trade
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1582432104
ISBN-13
9781582432106
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2211541
Product Key Features
Book Title
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Mystery & Detective, Letters, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-055494
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.52 B
Synopsis
The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man -- the novels of Dashiell Hammett are world-famous, their hardboiled characters a part of the American psyche. But unlike most of our great writers, the man himself has remained private, elusive. Now his biographer, Richard Layman, and his granddaughter, Julie M. Rivett, have gathered a treasure trove of Hammett's letters, almost all of them from private collections, almost all of them previously unpublished. "Reading them," writes Diane Johnson, "is the closest we can come to knowing the enigmatic, mild author of those powerful, original novels.", A selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the American writer of crime fiction. Here is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted; Hammett the student of politics, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; and Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, humour, accomplishments, but maintaining his independence. Celebrity, soldier, activist, survivor--these letters show how Hammett was each of these in turn, but was always, above all, a writer., This is a selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the American writer of crime fiction. Here is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted; Hammett the student of politics, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; and Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, humour, accomplishments, but maintaining his independence. Celebrity, soldier, activist, survivor - these letters show how Hammett was each of these in turn, but was always, above all, a writer.
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