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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bHUG/IN
100			_aHughes,Dorothy B.
245			_aIN A LONELY PLACE
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bPenguin Classics _c2023/01/01
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500			_aLos Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night—­bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out—seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the city for months… Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.
650			_aFiction
650			_aActresses Fiction
650			_aDrifters Fiction
650			_aLos Angeles (Calif.) Fiction
650			_aPsychological fiction
650			_aSerial murderers Fiction
650			_aYoung women Crimes against Fiction
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