Black Friday
by David Goodis
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From the author ofDark PassageandShoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them. With its chilling portrait of a doomed man sorting his way among the perverse loyalties of a criminal "family,"Black Fridayhas all the earmarks of David Goodis's classics,Dark PassageandShoot the Piano Player. It is a haunting and often devastating foray into a world where no one has anything left to lose and survival itself is an act of malice.Tags
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A man on the run gets involved with a gang near Philadelphia and has to use his wits to survive. This is a very bleak story, like most of what Goodis wrote, but it rings true on every page. Unlike Charles Willeford, whose bleak stories always had a bit of an ironic tone and devil-may-care attitude to them that signaled it all wasn't quite real, Goodis doesn't let any light shine into this dark tale at all. There isn't a lot of action, the crux of the story are the interactions between the four men and two women holed up in Germantown, PA. Each of them may start with a stereotype, but Goodis breathes life into them, and even the least sympathetic character (it would really be hard to pick ONE) has a human side that disarms our show more preconceptions. The more I read of Goodis, the less the darkness of his work bothers me. I am beginning to enjoy it for its truth. show less
Perfect hardboiled style to tell a gripping, page-turning noir.
Very memorable and dramatic. Exciting literature.
Very memorable and dramatic. Exciting literature.
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- Canonical title
- Black Friday
- Original title
- Black Friday
- Original publication date
- 1954
- Important places
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Related movies
- La course du lièvre à travers les champs (1972 | IMDb)
- Original language*
- Inglés
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