# Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (LOA #95)

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- Authors: [Robert Polito](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-polito)
- Publisher: Library of America
- ISBN: 978-18-8301-149-9
- Pages: 892
- Published: 1997-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

This adventurous two-volume collection presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the...