Books matching: gritty postwar society
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Save:Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze is a noir crime novel set in the 1950s that follows the story of an escaped convict named Tim Sunblade who teams up with a call girl named Virginia for a daring heist. The plot delves into their passionate yet volatile relationship, as they plan to make a massive score while battling their inner demons and societal expectations. The writing style of Chaze is described as sharp, witty, and slicing away at post-war American reality, highlighting themes of greed, desperation, and the destructive nature of human desires.
I’D BEEN roughnecking on a drilling rig in the Atchafayala River for better than sixteen weeks, racking the big silver stems of pipe, lugging the sacks of drilling mud from barge to shore, working wit...
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