Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories

Leonard Cassuto

327 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected pape...

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