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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Current price: $110.00
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
Current price: $110.00
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Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like
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to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialoguecentered on the power of sympathybetween these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between today's serial killers and the domestic fictions of long ago.