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Thieves'' Market

English · Hardback

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"Bezzerides creates an exciting, suspenseful, and sometimes brutally grim picture of the truckers and wholesalers who worked in the California produce industry during the 1930s and 1940s. He evokes an entire culture of farmers, mechanics, roadside waitresses, prostitutes, and low-level racketeers. Most of all, he vividly portrays the bitter struggles of first or second generation Americans who try to escape their wage-earning status, only to encounter frustration, violence, and death." —James Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema

About the author

A. I. Bezzerides, the author of Long Haul, later filmed by Raoul Walsh as They Drive by Night, wrote screenplays for Warner Bros. in the 1940s as well as the film noir classics On Dangerous Ground, directed by Nicholas Ray, and Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich. Thieves' Market was adapted by the author for a film, Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin. Garrett White is the translator of Blaise Cendrars's Hollywood.

Product details

Authors A. I. Bezzerides
Assisted by Garrett White (Foreword), White Garrett (Foreword)
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.04.2022
 
EAN 9780520358171
ISBN 978-0-520-35817-1
No. of pages 260
Series California Fiction
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: general and literary

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