X 513 pages.
The moon in the gutter book cover.
He is a revenge obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered.
The book is included in a collection of five goodis novels recently published by the library of america.
With gérard depardieu nastassja kinski victoria abril bertice reading.
4 novels four novels nightfall down there dark passage moon in the gutter.
She is a wealthy elusive woman.
The moon in the gutter french.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
Although it immediately followed beineix s big commercial success diva and featured two very big stars gérard depardieu and nastassja kinski the moon in the gutter was not well received by critics or audiences and failed.
The moon in the gutter.
The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
Among these novels is the moon in the gutter written in 1953 and set in a poor decaying section of philadelphia.
In between diva and betty blue director jean jacques beneix made the loopiest adaptation of a david goodis novel yet the moon in the gutter quite a r.
The moon in the gutter is a fantastic read if you don t mind fiction where there isn t a single character who is any better off at the end than they were at the beginning.
The movie takes place mostly in a lower class neighbourhood or at the docks where gerard gerard depardieu works and focuses on the women in his life including his tigress girlfriend bella victoria abril as he tries to make sense of his sister s death.
Into a dive bar walks loretta channing the beautiful enigmatic.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
Adrian wootton in a back street in the rough end of philadelphia docker william kerrigan obsesses over the mysterious suicide of his sister.
Directed by jean jacques beineix.
They try hard to get together.
But goodis does not flinch once in setting forth a narrative that drips with despair and utter hopelessness.
About the moon in the gutter for the first time the best work of a distinctive master of american noir is available in authoritative e book editions from the library of america.
It s a short book and the plotting is a little thin.