Thieves' Market
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-0-520-20746-2 (ISBN)
Description
A dark, fast-paced proletarian novel originally published in 1949, Thieves' Market was written out of the author's youthful experiences as a trucker carrying produce to the packing houses of California's Central Valley. Immigrant Nick Garcos, like his father before him, becomes an independent trucker, soon landing in the brutal and crooked underworld of the produce markets of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, and Los Angeles.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-20746-2 (9780520207462)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
A. I. Bezzerides, the author of Long Haul, later filmed by Raoul Walsh as They Drive by Night (1940), wrote screenplays for Warner Bros. in the 1940s as well as the film noir classics On Dangerous Ground, directed by Nicholas Ray, and Kiss Me Deadly, directed by Robert Aldrich. Thieves' Market was adapted by the author for a film, Thieves' Highway, directed by Jules Dassin. Garrett White is the translator of Blaise Cendrars's Hollywood (California, 1995).