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Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (Loa #279): The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (Loa #279): The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar

MacDonald, Ross
Nolan, Tom

Hardcover

Series: Library of America Ross MacDonald Edition, Book 2

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN10: 1598534793
ISBN13: 9781598534795
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 792
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s). Each reflects Macdonald's enduring concern with the hidden crimes and agonizing dysfunctions that haunt families from one generation to the next. In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a father's attempt to protect his daughter from the complete and utter personal disaster of marriage to a troubled drifter sends private detective Lew Archer on a perplexing and increasingly bloody trail that leads him from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and finally into the maze of a tragically splintered identity. In The Chill, the search for a young bride gone missing uncovers a succession of seemingly unrelated crimes committed over a period of decades, as Archer finds himself a ghost from the present haunting a bloody moment in the past. Another hunt for a missing person--this time a young man escaped from an elite reform school--provides the impetus for The Far Side of the Dollar, which Macdonald's friend Eudora Welty considered securely among your strongest and best . . . a beauty that just gets better.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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