Dark Passage
Dark Passage
by David Goodis.
First published 1946.
ISBN 13: 9781598534467
ISBN 10: 1598534467
ASIN: B00TNBOFUI
Description:
The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s
murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison
becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. A
fugitive from justice, in the depths of despair, he finds refuge with a
beautiful woman as he struggles to unravel a nightmarish plot.
First published as a magazine serial, Dark
Passage was filmed in 1947 by Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall, it is regarded as a classic of noir filmmaking.
For the first time, the best work of a
distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book
editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief
celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular
movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.