Eric Ambler: A Literary Biography by Peter Lewis (.ePUB)
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Eric Ambler: A Literary Biography by Peter Lewis
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Overview: Eric Ambler is widely regarded as one of the most important thriller writers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s he set out to give respectability to a genre that he rightly recognised needed to be rescued from its status as pulp fiction.
With six landmark novels published between 1936 and 1940, Ambler laid the foundations for the postwar generation of writers who raised the spy novel to a form of literature. Like Graham Greene, Ambler used the ingredients of a thriller to create a series of novels that investigated many aspects of modern life, from totalitarian political regimes to white-collar crime. And with those books, he transformed the scale and scope of the genre. But who was the man behind the work?
Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning author Peter Lewis gives us the first full-length study of Amber’s life and work. It brings us to the heart of the grand master of intrigue through insightful discussions of such popular novels as ‘Epitaph for a Spy’, ‘A Coffin for Dimitrios’, ‘The Light of Day’ (on which the well-known film ‘Topkapi’ is based), and ‘The Siege of the Villa Lipp’ – among many others. By examining the individual books, Peter Lewis shows us how Ambler’s work changed throughout his life – while remaining always topical. As this book argues, no novelist did more to dissolve the boundaries that separated “popular” from “serious” fiction.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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