Booze and the Private Eye

副标题: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel

ISBN: 9780786418992

出版社: McFarland & Company

出版年: 2004-08

页数: 208

定价: USD 35.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by Prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton.