David Goodis Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

They say that a man needs a woman to go to hell with. Cassidy had two. One was Mildred, the wife who kept him chained with ties of fear and jealousy and paralyzing sexual need. The other was Doris, a frail angel with a 100-proof halo and a bottle instead of a harp. With those two, Cassidy found that the ride to hell could be twice as fast. Cassidy's Girl has all the traits that made its author a virtuoso of the hard-boiled: a fiercely compelling ploy; characters who self-destruct in spectacularly unpredictable ways; and an insider's knowledge of all the routes to the bottom.

Eddie, ein gescheiterter Pianist, lebt in einer Kneipe und versucht, seine tragische Vergangenheit zu vergessen. Als sein Bruder um Hilfe bittet, bleibt er hart, doch die Situation zwingt ihn zur Flucht in sein Elternhaus. Dort entwickelt sich eine zarte Beziehung zu einer Kellnerin, bevor das Unvermeidliche geschieht.

Einführg. ; Nachw. von Compart, Martin ; Marzin, Florian

Mit e. Biblio- und Filmographie v. Compart, Martin

Das Buch enthält ein Nachwort und eine ausgewählte Filmographie von Andre Simonovieszc und umfasst 207 Seiten.

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life—the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.

Nouvelle édition en 1987

In the rough end of Philadelphia, docker William Kerrigan obsesses over the mysterious suicide of his sister. Into a dive bar walks Lorretta Channing the beautiful, enigmatic socialite and sister of Newton the drunk. Loretta's the impossible dream, the escape route from his hellhole existence, but maybe she holds the key to his sister's death.