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de David Goodis (Author) "IT BEGAN WITH a shattered dream ..." En savoir plus
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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 suspect his wife of adultery and is simultaneously haunted by memories of his childhood relationship with his sister. Alvin deserts the family home and moves to the Tenderloin where he takes up again with his ex-girlfriend, Geraldine, who is now a cocaine addict. There, he plans the murder of his old friend, Pete Lanson, whom he suspects of being his wife's lover.

Born in Philadelphia in 1917, David Goodis was the author of many noir classics-Dark Passage, The Burglar, Moon in the Gutter, Shoot the Piano Player-many of which have been made into cult films. His books are currently enjoying a considerable revival of interest. David Goodis died in 1967.


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'You'll belong to me. And I'll belong to Charlie .... The three of us, we'll have a wonderful time.'

Alvin Darby is a 29 year old insurance clerk, with a comfortable apartment, a beautiful wife and enough money in the bank not to have to worry. So why does he wake up in the middle of the night tortured be the image of a woman with platinum blonde hair? And why is he suddenly convinced that his wife is having an affair?

Consumed by jealousy and determined to track down the woman with the platinum blonde hair, Alvin leaves his comfortable life to walk the streets of Skid Row intent on murder. Caught up in an underworld of drugs and crime, Alvin is soon out of his depth, and back with his old girlfriend Geraldine, whose seductive silver yellow hair and orange lips seem to hold the key to unlock the dark and terrible sin if his past ...

Long unavailable, Of Tender Sin is a brilliant tale of paranoia and jealousy, femmes fatales and dark secrets. With its searing portrayal of the mean streets of Philadelphia and its underworld of drugs and crime, Of Tender Sin is as hard-hitting today as when it was first published in 1952.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 a strange tale of neurotic obsession ... and sin, Oct. 21 2002
Par lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Of Tender Sin is my first David Goodis novel, and I was impressed. People often categorise Goodis novels along the same lines as works by Jim Thompson or Cornell Woolrich. But Of Tender Sin reminds me of the earlier works by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr Ripley), complete with the deconstruction of a paranoid, weak individual with criminal intent.

In this book with have a young actuary and his wife going through ... a difficult patch. He thinks she is cheating on him. He also starts have strange visions (..the sudden appearence of platinum blonde hair on women) and disturbing flashbacks (unwholesome memories of his older sister). Just when his life couldn't get more weird he then sets on getting the man he thinks his wife is seeing, runs into an old flame (a very strange lady), and ... the story gets very interesting indeed.

My only complaint with the book, and really a minor one, is the ending. Goodis writes very nicely, and the story builds up a decent level of suspense. But the ending seems anti-climatic and all too ... realistic. For a book that is very bizarre I didn't expect, or want, a believable ending.

Bottom line: I can't understand why his books aren't better known. David Goodis is a talent, and Of Tender Sin is a fine read.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Platinum Blonde, Mars 28 2002
Par James Paris "Tarnmoor" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
Every city has a street where the most pathetic bums congregate, where the filthiest flophouses and scariest bars are to be found. That's also where you'll find David Goodis's characters: Wherever they begin, you will find they will plummet to the lowest depths like a sinker.

Alvin Darby is married to a beautiful brunette and works in an office making good money as an actuary, but there is a wild hair (literally) up his craw. He is drawn to a strange vision of a platinum blonde and can't quite figure why. Before he married, he ran around with one such blonde named Geraldine but found her too capricious. But his marriage starts to unravel as he suspects his wife of infidelity. Instead of confronting her, however, he loses himself in the platinum blonde dream and begins to frequent low bars and lower company.

Sigmund Freud would approve of how Alvin confronts his past -- pardon me, but I can't divulge the secret -- and begins the slow process of redemption.

Goodis is always worth reading, and this is one of his best, if not one of his better known. This British Serpent's Tail edition comes with a respectful if not exactly accurate introduction by Adrian Wootton, who seems to think the SATURDAY EVENING POST was a newspaper. I am grateful that Serpent's Tail published OF TENDER SIN and look forward to obtaining their other Goodis titles.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 The wait is over!, Mars 15 2001
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I always look foward to the David Goodis reprints, even back in the eighties from black lizard.During the last few years the odd titles published by serpents tail have come out so sporadically you wondered what the next title was going to be. No disappointment here! Of Tender Sin one of the earlier Goodis novels has the protagonist/antihero paired up with his muse "the downward spiral".Quick paced and a gritty philly backdrop provide the hardboiled goodis formula.For anyone not familiar with the Goodis ouevre welcome, for those in the know, lets just say this makes for a great beach read on a cloudy day.
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