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

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories Paperback - 2009

by Cassuto, Leonard

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New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. First printing. Near Fine. Paperback, inscribed by author, 327pp.
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  • Title Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
  • Author Cassuto, Leonard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # s00033076
  • ISBN 9780231126915 / 0231126913
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Masculinity in literature, American fiction - 19th century - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008028238
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.087

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2009, Page 0

About the author

Leonard Cassuto is professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Salon.com. He is the author of The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture and the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the American Novel.