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In a back street in the rough end of Philadelphia, docker William Kerrigan obsesses over the mysterious suicide of his sister. Into a dive bar walks Loretta Channing the beautiful, enigmatic socialite and sister of Newton the drunk. For Kerrigan, Loretta's the impossible dream, the escape route from out of his hellhole existence, away from the crowded tenements, the shacks, the dark alleys. But Loretta may also hold the key to finding out what prompted his sister's death, the reason he can never break free. The Moon in the Gutter is a fierce and heated tale of desire and revenge. Made into a film starring Gerard Depardieu and Nastassia Kinski, it remains an enthralling classic of American noir fiction.Amazon ReviewFirst published in 1953, The Moon in the Gutter was David Goodis's 10th novel, part of the loose trilogy including Black Friday and Down There. A prolific writer of hardboiled crime, Goodis's success was modest (he died in 1967). In his Introduction to Serpent Tail's reissuing of the book (alongside The Blonde on the Street Corner ), Adrian Wootton stakes a claim for the intrinsic interest of Goodis's fiction--"he is, undoubtedly, a damn fine writer; a unique and distinct

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Author

David Goodis; Robert Polito, editor

Publisher

Serpent's Tail

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598534252

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (167 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14