{"product_id":"in-a-lonely-place-paperback","title":"In a Lonely Place - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy B. Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMegan Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLos Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching \"that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.\" He prowls the foggy city night--­bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out--seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who's been terrorizing the women of the city for months... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes's tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, \u003ci\u003e In a Lonely Place\u003c\/i\u003e also inspired Nicholas Ray's 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy B. Hughes \u003c\/b\u003e(1904-1993) was born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and worked as a reporter before attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico and Columbia University. In 1931 her collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eDark Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She was married in 1932 and would not publish her next book, the hard-boiled novel \u003ci\u003eThe So Blue Marble\u003c\/i\u003e, until 1940. Between 1940 and 1952 Hughes published twelve more novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cross-Eyed Bear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRide the Pink\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHorse\u003c\/i\u003e. For four decades she was the crime-fiction reviewer for\u003ci\u003e The Albuquerque Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, earning an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism from the Mystery Writers of America in 1951. \u003ci\u003eThe Expendable Man\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1963, was her last novel. \"I simply hadn't the tranquility required to write\" and care for a family, she later said. In 1978, however, she published \u003ci\u003eThe Case of the Real Perry Mason\u003c\/i\u003e, a critical biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, and that same year she was recognized as a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e Megan Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Will Know Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Edgar Award-winning \u003ci\u003eQueenpin\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Street Was Mine\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of hard-boiled fiction and film noir and the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Hell of a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, a female crime fiction anthology. She received a Ph.D. in literature from New York University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44312557191270,"sku":"9781681371474","price":23.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/UFVqZk1BL3ZHVUkxR08vWk1WbVFPUT09.webp?v=1767894648","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/in-a-lonely-place-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}