New Hard-Boiled Writers : 1970s-1990s

With an eye towards the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, Panek comments both on the way it has changed since the 1970s and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hard-boiled writers: Robert B. Parker. James Crumley. Loren Estleman. Sara Paretsky. Robert Crais. James Lee Burke. and Walter Mosley. The new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the 20th century.

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