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Into the Badlands: Travels Through Urban America

by: John Williams

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780586090183
ISBN: 0586090185
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1993-02
Publisher: Harpercollins
Studio: Harpercollins
Sales Rank: 985305




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In "a vital mix of literary criticism, personality profiles, and imaginary geography" (New Statesman and Society), Williams seeks out the mythical America of the nation's most astute chroniclers--the crime writers--to find Elmore Leonard's Miami, Sara Paretsky's Chicago, and Andrew Vachss' New York, among others.



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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A Grand Tour of American Crime (circa 1989)
This unpretentious literary travelogue provides an excellent window into a number of top American crime writers and the (mostly urban) areas they inhabit. Williams' 1989 circuit of the U.S. is a kind of crime fiction grand tour, as he visits thirteen established and up-and-coming authors (only one of whom is female) in ten locations, each of which gets about 20-25 pages or so, as follows:

Miami >> Carl Hiassen (Lucky You, Stormy Weather), James Hall Louisiana >> James Lee Burke New Mexico >> Tony Hillerman Los Angeles >> James Ellroy, Gar Anthony Haywood San Francisco >> Joe Gores (32 Cadillacs) Missoula, MT >> James Crumley (Bordersnakes) Chicago >> Sara Partesky, Eugene Izzi Detroit >> Elmore Leonard (Be Cool, Cuba Libre, Pronto, Pagan Babies, Riding the Rap) Boston >> George V. ... Read More


 


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