Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Series #1)
Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.
Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780671740504
Publish date: 01-01-1970
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Fiction
It is certainly not a bad book. It's just not my kind of book. From the very beginning I couldn't emphazise or identify with the character. It wasn't really the author's fault but rather my non-existing interest for the time/suroundings the book was set in.The countless side-characters also didn't h...
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