Dashiell Hammett: A Life
by Diane Johnson
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The definitive life of one of America's most important, enigmatic, and fascinating novelistsTags
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Gallimard, Folio (2349)
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- Original title
- Dashiell Hammett : a life
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Dashiell Hammett
- Epigraph
- Everybody has twenty-four hours a day,
no more and seldom less, and one way of
putting in the time seems as filling to me as
another, depending of course on your own
nature...
-DASHIELL HAMMETT - Dedication
- For my family
and for all my forbearing friends - First words
- In the month of Dashiell Hammett's death, January 1961, John Crosby observed in the New York Herald Tribune that the television air was full of imitation Sam Spades: "As a matter of fact, they are imitations of imitation Sam ... (show all)Spades: the 77 Sunset Strip and the rest of them are now distilled by a whole batch of Hollywood hacks who have never been inside a police station. The stuff is turned out like salt-water taffy now, rather sexy and violent stuff, but nevertheless as commercial as anything sold at Atlantic City. Only the corruption remains; the talent has long since fled."
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