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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels

by Dashiell Hammett

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The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934 are collected inone volume: "Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, "and "The Thin Man."
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Table of Contents

Red harvest — The Dain curse — The Maltese falcon — The glass key — The thin man.
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Marilyn Stachenfeld, April 16, 2008 (view all comments by Marilyn Stachenfeld)
If you're learning to write fiction, study this book! Description of movements--face and body--which characterize as well as the slow, steady build up of character underlie Hammett's plots and their resolutions. His character study makes him a master, and the intricacy yet clarity of his plots force close and well-repaid attention. Dialogue adheres to each character's eccentricities like glue. I just re-read "The Glass Key" and and found consistencies I'd overlooked at first reading. Well worth studying.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781883011673
Subtitle:
Complete Novels
Author:
Hammett, Dashiell
Editor:
Marcus, Steven
Author:
Marcus, Steven
Publisher:
Library of America
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Private investigators
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories, American
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:
Private investigators -- United States.
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Library of America (Hardcover)
Series Volume:
110
Publication Date:
September 1999
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
967
Dimensions:
815x535x124 140
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