Read Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

John Lennard

4.9/5 (22996 ratings)

Description:Walter Mosley, a favourite author of President Bill Clinton, is the most important African-American writer of crime fiction since Chester B. Himes. This Genre Fiction Sightline offers the reader of Mosley's fiction extensive and illuminating notes and annotations, plus an appreciative essay and a bibliography, all designed to enrich the reader's experience of this writer and this novel.Mosley's novels chronicling the investigations of Easy Rawlins chart Californian history from 1948, echoing Chandler (and John D. MacDonald) while challenging Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. He has also written other crime and SF novels, Young Adult fiction, a memoir, and activist non-fiction, and is widely involved in cultural and educational projects promoting writing by people of colour. Devil in a Blue Dress is the first novel in Mosley's outstanding 'Easy' Rawlins series. The Notes in this book provide an overview of Mosley's career and the series, give historical and literary backgrounds to the novel (including Chandler, Himes, Pinkerton Men and Private Eyes, Hollywood's Gumshoes, and the 'GI Bill'), and consider the film adaptation of Devil. Chapter by chapter Annotations detail allusions, slang, musical references, flora and fauna, and fashion, while disentangling Mosley's real and fictive Los Angeles. The Essay is 'In the Mortgage of his Skin', and uses Walcott's and Lamming's great phrase to ask about Easy's purest passion, the house that is his castle. The Bibliography covers all Mosley's work, with critical material on him and on (African-American) crime writing.John Lennard's publications include But I The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (1991), The Poetry Handbook (1996; 2005), with Mary Luckhurst The Drama Handbook (2002), and the Literature Insights Hamlet (2007). He is the general editor of the Genre Fiction Sightlines and Genre Fiction Monographs series, and has written several Sightlines titles, as well as two critical collections, Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (2007) and Of Sex and Faeries; furthrr Essays in Genre Fiction (2010) - both available in Kindle format and in paperback from Troubador.co.uk.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines). To get started finding Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1847600425

Description: Walter Mosley, a favourite author of President Bill Clinton, is the most important African-American writer of crime fiction since Chester B. Himes. This Genre Fiction Sightline offers the reader of Mosley's fiction extensive and illuminating notes and annotations, plus an appreciative essay and a bibliography, all designed to enrich the reader's experience of this writer and this novel.Mosley's novels chronicling the investigations of Easy Rawlins chart Californian history from 1948, echoing Chandler (and John D. MacDonald) while challenging Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. He has also written other crime and SF novels, Young Adult fiction, a memoir, and activist non-fiction, and is widely involved in cultural and educational projects promoting writing by people of colour. Devil in a Blue Dress is the first novel in Mosley's outstanding 'Easy' Rawlins series. The Notes in this book provide an overview of Mosley's career and the series, give historical and literary backgrounds to the novel (including Chandler, Himes, Pinkerton Men and Private Eyes, Hollywood's Gumshoes, and the 'GI Bill'), and consider the film adaptation of Devil. Chapter by chapter Annotations detail allusions, slang, musical references, flora and fauna, and fashion, while disentangling Mosley's real and fictive Los Angeles. The Essay is 'In the Mortgage of his Skin', and uses Walcott's and Lamming's great phrase to ask about Easy's purest passion, the house that is his castle. The Bibliography covers all Mosley's work, with critical material on him and on (African-American) crime writing.John Lennard's publications include But I The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (1991), The Poetry Handbook (1996; 2005), with Mary Luckhurst The Drama Handbook (2002), and the Literature Insights Hamlet (2007). He is the general editor of the Genre Fiction Sightlines and Genre Fiction Monographs series, and has written several Sightlines titles, as well as two critical collections, Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (2007) and Of Sex and Faeries; furthrr Essays in Genre Fiction (2010) - both available in Kindle format and in paperback from Troubador.co.uk.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines). To get started finding Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

Walter Mosley: Devil In A Blue Dress (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

More Books

Tamora Pierce: "The Immortals" (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

Tamora Pierce: "The Immortals" (Genre Fiction Sightlines)

The Poetry Handbook

The Poetry Handbook

Reading Octavia Butler: "Xenogenesis" / "Lilith's Brood"

Reading Octavia Butler: "Xenogenesis" / "Lilith's Brood"

Talking Sense About 'Fifty Shades of Grey', or, Fanfiction, Feminism, and BDSM

Talking Sense About 'Fifty Shades of Grey', or, Fanfiction, Feminism, and BDSM

The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays

The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays

Reading Vladimir Nabokov: 'Lolita'

Reading Vladimir Nabokov: 'Lolita'

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard (2006-03-02)

The Poetry Handbook by John Lennard (2006-03-02)

The Exasperating Case of David Weber, or, The Slow Death of the Honorverse

The Exasperating Case of David Weber, or, The Slow Death of the Honorverse

Reading Paul Scott: 'The Raj Quartet' and 'Staying On' (Literature Insights)

Reading Paul Scott: 'The Raj Quartet' and 'Staying On' (Literature Insights)