Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

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The classic novel of the Dillinger era in America "Love as hot as a blow torch . . . crime as vicious as the jungle" (from the original 1948 edition)
Paperback, 250 pages
Published December 1st 1996 by Serpent's Tail (first published 1948)
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Robert Carraher
The second of Horace McCoy’s noir classics, republished in April by Open Road Media in a nicely formatted eBook with perhaps the most extensive biography of McCoy available. Published in 1948 at the start of what scholars consider the beginning of the Noir/Paperback era in crime fiction (and the end of the hardboiled era of authors like Dashiell Hammett, Chandler and the pulp magazines and their authors) , Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye leans towards the hardboiled genre, that had just past, but enters t...more
Michael
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is hardboiled fiction in the finest tradition. Whatever you believe pulp noir or hardboiled writing is, you’ll find it here. Tough guys, sexy women, crooked lawyers, dishonest cops, blackmail, betrayal, manipulation, sex and violence, it’s all in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and it all hits home hard.

As a fan of hardboiled crime fiction, you’d think I’d have fallen in love with this one and I would have had the cover bronzed and framed to sit above my fireplace. If so, you’d thin...more
Lisa


Started out promising but only made it to pg.95- it got tedious real fast. Perhaps I'll try to get back into it at a later date. ( Had high hopes as I love noir and especially the crazy-ass novels of Jim Thompson in the 50's).
Andy
Atypical late 40's crime novel. Sociopathic main character reminded me of some of Elmore Leonard's crazed dirtbags. Some excellent writing and very funny dialogue that hasn't dated in 60+ years. Interesting to read a book like this that was years ahead of most other books of the genre.
Johnny
A hard-boiled classic. While McCoy is mainly known for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", this book is his masterpiece. It deserves to be rediscovered.
Nikita Svetlov
Atmosphere on the top
Mikel
from the first line this novel takes off with a whirlwind topped only by Jim Thompson at his best. Read this before They Shoot Horses Don't They, indeed was the only reason why I read that book, and in all honesty I couldn;t get enough. One of the more graphic sex and violence novels from that era. I cannot imagine how they got away with making a film of this at that time......
Kristopher
This is one intense book. Extremely graphic for a late 40s crime novel. Closer to what came out in the late '50s (and that's only with Jim Thompson) and even later.

UPDATE, June 22, 2010: It's intense in terms of content matter, but it's kind of pretentious, and now getting a little annoying.
Gary
My first venture into "hardboiled" & I think I'm obsessed.
Stephen
This is one nasty hard as hell crime fiction piece.
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Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (193...more
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