β Scribed by Goodis, David; Polito, Robert
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βDavid Goodis is the mystery man of hardboiled fiction.ββGeoffrey OβBrien
In Street of No Return, we meet the pathetic figure of Whitey. Once upon a time Whitey was a crooner with a million-dollar voice and a standing invitation from any woman who heard him use it. Until he had the bad luck to fall for Celia. And then nothing would ever be the same.
In Street of No Return, David Goodis works the magic that made him one of the most distinctive voices in hard-boiled fiction, creating a claustrophobic universe in which wounded men and women collide with cataclysmic force.
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For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In _Street of No Return_(1954), David Goodis presents a skid row odyssey in which a famous crooner scarred by violence descends into dereliction. From
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