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Painting noir in the blackest shades, Goodis captures the bleak desperation of the urban jungle like no other writer before or since.- Neon "Nobody does despair like <Goodis> did!"- Time Out Alvin Darby's comfortable, middle class lifestyle is plunged into turmoil when he begins to... read more

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IT BEGAN WITH a shattered dream.
 

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