The Big Clock
Language: English
Published by New York Review Books Classics / New York Review Of Books New York, 2006
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Yellowbacks
- First Edition
- Softcover
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First edition thus (preceded by the 1946 Hardcover release among others) first printing of an as new softcover with no jacket as issued. Featuring George Stroud who after spending time with his boss' girlfriend finds out she has been murdered and his boss asks him to locate who she was with, essentially he has to look for himself. The basis for three film adaptions, in 1948 as "The Big Clock starring Ray Milland , in 1976 as "Police Python 357" starring Yves Montand, and in 1987 as "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner.
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- Title
- The Big Clock
- Author
- Kenneth Fearing
- Publisher
- New York Review Books Classics / New York Review Of Books New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1590171810
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171813
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Yellowbacks
A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City.
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment.
Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline's apartment on the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back; but he doesn't know who he was. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else?
How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir.
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About the Author
KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Voted wittiest boy and class pessimist in high school, he moved to New York City after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. He published several well received volumes of poetry in addition to his novels, including Angel Arms, Dead Reckoning, and Stranger at Coney Island and other poems. The Big Clock was included in The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noir of the 30s and 40s. The novel has been adapted into two films, The Big Clock (1948) and No Way Out (1987).
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER is the author of five novels: The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, andThe Bestiary; several books of poetry, including Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004; and a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American City. He is a Professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
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