The Moon In The Gutter David Goodis

La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix it was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival.

The moon in the gutter david goodis.

David goodis is commonly ranked in the top tier of noir novelists and the moon in the gutter is commonly ranked among his best work. When he returned he lived in a room in his parents home and published pulp novels as inexpensive paperback originals. In the rough guide to crime fiction 2007 barry forshaw cites the moon in the gutter as his representative goodis text in arguing that of all the noir novelists goodis comes the closest. Among these novels is the moon in the gutter written in 1953 and set in a poor decaying section of philadelphia.

About the moon in the gutter for the first time the best work of a distinctive master of american noir is available in authoritative e book editions from the library of america. Five noir novels of the 1940s 50s loa 225. David goodis 1917 1967 lived and worked in hollywood before returning to his hometown of philadelphia in 1950. The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia.

The moon in the gutter french. Although it immediately followed beineix s big commercial success diva and featured two very big stars gérard depardieu and nastassja kinski the moon in the gutter was not well received by critics or audiences and failed.