Home Is the Sailor (Hard Case Crime)
by Day Keene
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Author: Day KeeneEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03
ISBN: 084395356X
Number of pages: 203
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
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Book Review: As Hard-Boiled As They Get!
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't remember the last time I have had such an enjoyable reading experience!
This book is rather legendary in pulp fiction circles and I have read about it for years. I was really excited when Hard Case Crime announced that it was reissuing it after all this time.
HOME IS THE SAILOR utilizes every pulp convention in the book, and I think it is because of this that it works so well. This book would not be written now...it is definitely of its time. Then again, so are the movies "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "The Big Sleep." This is a great part of its charm and I found myself nostalgic for a time I didn't live in and a world that probably never existed.
What is most interesting to me about this book is that, despite the wonderfully over-the top portrayal of its characters, it still shows that though times may change, the screwy aspects of the relationships between men and women don't.
For those who like this genre of fiction, I cannot recommend this book enough. For those who have never read classic hard-boiled pulp fiction, this is an excellent place to start. It's the template for every one you'll ever read, but like an original Muddy Waters song, it may have been done a thousand different ways by a thousand different people, but it was never done better.
Summary of Home Is the Sailor (Hard Case Crime)
NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER?After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible ? and nothing but trouble.
It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he?s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can?t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he?s being set up?
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