Stories Collected by W.R. Burnett (.ePUB)
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Stories Collected by W.R. Burnett (ed. Jerry eBooks, 2024 revised edition)
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Overview: W R Burnett (William Riley Burnett) (1899 – 1982)
William Riley Burnett, often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter.
W.R. Burnett kept busy, producing a novel or more a year and turning most into screenplays (some as many as three times). Thematically Burnett was similar to Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain but his contrasting of the corruption and corrosion of the city with the better life his characters yearned for, represented by the paradise of the pastoral, was fresh and original. He portrayed characters who, for one reason or another, fell into a life of crime. Once sucked into this life they were unable to climb out. They typically get one last shot at salvation but the oppressive system closes in and denies redemption. Burnett’s characters exist in a world of twilight morality—virtue can come from gangsters and criminals, malice from guardians and protectors. Above all his characters are human and this could be their undoing.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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