{"product_id":"black-friday-and-selected-stories-9781852424695","title":"Black Friday: And Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eSurreal  disturbing  frequently brilliant. Nobody like him.Time Out David Goodis is the mystery man of hardboiled fictionhe wrote of winos and bar-room piano players and small-time thieves in a vein of tortured lyricism all his ownHe was the poet of the losers.Geoffrey OBrien Its winter in Philadelphia. Hart is broke  freezing  looking for a place to lay low from the cops. If he cant find somewhere soon he might do something rashlike accept a wallet containing $11 000 from a man dying from gunshot wounds in the street. Whoever killed him might have a bed  though  even if that means hanging out with a bunch of thieves and drifters. Lucky for Hart hes handy with his fists. And if he can use his looks and smarts to get in with the gang  maybe he can ride this out and score big on his own. Originally published in 1954  Black Friday is one of David Goodis leanest  meanest melancholy thrillers. In this edition  the novel is combined with the best of Goodis short stories  first written for pulp magazines in America over 50 years ago and published for the first time in book form. One of the greatest an American crime writers  David Goodis was born in Philadelphia in 1917  and wrote his first novel  Retreat from Oblivion  in 1938. He died in 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788443508789,"sku":"ByrdShop_1852424699","price":336.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781852424695.jpg?v=1784645572","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/black-friday-and-selected-stories-9781852424695","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}