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Name: Nightfall
Author: David Goodis
Year: 1947
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Popularity: 1.2
Genres/categories: Mystery, Noir

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9780887390296
9781933618173
9781933618180
0887390293
1933618175
1933618183
"An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving."-Geoffrey O'Brien

Jim Vanning has an identity crisis. Is he an innocent artist who just happens to have some very dangerous people interested in him? Or is he a killer on the lam from his last murder-with a satchel worth over $300,000 in tow?

Relentlessly focused, Nightfall may be David Goodis' most accomplished novel. It is a fiendishly constructed maze, filled with unpredictable pitfalls and human predators whose authenticity only makes them more terrifying.

David Goodis (1917-1967), a former pulp, radio, and Hollywood script writer, is now recognized as a leading author of crime fiction. Besides sojourns in New York City and Hollywood, he lived primarily in Philadelphia.
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