The Night of the Hunter: David Grubb (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage) - Softcover

Buch 7 von 10: A Vintage Movie Classic

Grubb, Davis

 
9780241640425: The Night of the Hunter: David Grubb (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241640423 ISBN 13: 9780241640425
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph


Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil's work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man's family lives. As he hunts them down, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Davis Grubb was born in the Ohio River town of Moundsville, West Virginia in 1919 and died in New York City in 1980. He lived a various life, writing novels and short stories, screenplays, television treatments and working as a radio announcer. The Night of the Hunter was shortlisted for the 1955 National Book Award and in the same year was made into a legendary film starring Robert Mitchum as Preacher.

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Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...
Harry 'Preacher' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil's work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man's family lives. As he hunts them down, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241640423
ISBN 13 
9780241640425
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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