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Los Angeles Stories by Ry Cooder
Category: Fiction | Series: City Lights Noir
"Cooder writes with Chandler-esque pepper and an eye for character." -- "Rolling Stone" "Los Angeles Stories" is a collection of loosely linked, noir-ish tales that evoke a bygone era in one of America's most iconic cities. In post-World War II Los Angeles, as power was concentrating and fortunes were b ...Show more
Mygale by Thierry Jonquet; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: City Lights Noir Ser.
This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed film "The Skin I Live In."* * *Mygale MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .A highly successful plastic surgeon pursues and captures the man who raped his daughter. He is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambig ...Show more
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette; James Brook (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: City Lights Noir Ser.
Also available in a new, movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87286-664-5. Ebook ISBN: 9780872866652). Film opened March 20, 2015 starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, directed by Pierre Morel (Taken). Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of ...Show more
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