The Burglar
by:
David Goodis (author)
A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the Piano Player.Nat Harbin is a family man. His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess...
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A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the Piano Player.Nat Harbin is a family man. His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess her. But you don't get away from family that easily.The Burglar has the hallmarks that made David Goodis one of the great practitioners of the hard-boiled crime novel: a haunting identification with life's losers, and a hero who finds out who he is only by betraying everything he believes in.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679734727 (0679734724)
Publish date: May 7th 1991
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages no: 154
Edition language: English
Lean, mean, and terribly bleak, once this story starts moving it's pretty hard to break away from it until the haunting ending (one of the best endings I've read)! This was my first novel by the nearly forgotten David Goodis and it won't be my last.Example of Goodis's poetic bleakness:“He couldn’t ...
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