Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Fearing, Kenneth; Christopher, Nicholas |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 7/18/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City.
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for aNew York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in theheyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroudhas a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Thingshappen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner justas Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in herapartment.
Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline’s apartmenton the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline waswith before he got back; but he doesn’t know who he was. Janoth badly wants to gethis hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track himdown: George Stroud, who else?
How does a man escape from himself? No book has everdramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpieceof American noir.
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