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He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, the shock of the explosion, and then the blood. He could remember the flight though the woods, and the satchel with the money, and now the gang of killers, closing in. But what he couldn't figure was the woman. She had been there, once, when the killers caught him, and beat him half to death. And he had found her one night with one of them in her room. She said she loved him. And he wanted her. But could he trust her?
- Sales Rank: #2383572 in Books
- Published on: 2013-05-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .32" w x 5.98" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 138 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Satisfying noir
By TChris
Vanning is hiding out in Greenwich Village. He doesn't know Detective Fraser is watching him. Neither does he know that two men who robbed a bank in Seattle are in New York, but he knows those men are after him. They think he has the $300,000 that was stolen from the bank. Fraser thinks Vanning might be the third robber. The evidence suggests that Vanning, using the name Dilks, met with a man named Harrison, killed him, and fled with the $300,000, cash that Harrison was supposed to launder. Yet Fraser can't wrap his head around Vanning's participation in a bank robbery, much less a murder. Vanning is a commercial artist, a former naval officer with no criminal record. Fraser doesn't want to arrest Vanning until he knows he can recover the money, but his doubts about Vanning's guilt haunt him because the evidence is probably sufficient to send Vanning to the electric chair.
When the two robbers catch up with Vanning, he claims he doesn't know where the money is. Is Vanning telling the truth? In a plot worthy of a Hitchcock movie (Nightfall was filmed but not by Hitchcock), Vanning is the traditional figure who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Vanning is torn between his desire to go to the police and his certainty that the police will always follow the easy path. The evidence points to Vanning's guilt and Vanning knows that nothing he can say to the police will convince them otherwise -- especially given his inability to produce the $300,000 that he knows he once had. It's the missing money that sets Nightfall apart from other thrillers that follow the "innocent man trying to prove his innocence" formula.
This isn't David Goodis' most suspenseful novel, but the plot is intriguing. Nightfall is the kind of low key crime novel that modern authors, obsessed with martial arts and car chases, seem unable to replicate. The novel's thrills come from tension rather than action. Its focus is on psychology rather than gunplay. The story's violent moments are explosive but contained, usually related in a paragraph or two. Goodis tosses a love story into the mix that I thought was unconvincing, but that reaction was tempered by the knowledge that Vanning isn't capable of thinking clearly.
Goodis gives the gift of realism to his characters. Responding to the stress of an untenable situation, Vanning slowly comes unglued. He behaves foolishly and can't understand why. He feels himself being dragged down in "a whirlpool of defeat." He's disappointed in himself ("I can't get a practical thought in my head," he says), but as Fraser tells him, if we really knew ourselves, "we'd be adding machines instead of human beings." Frasier suffers from crippling self-doubt as he worries that Vanning has either escaped or been captured by the robbers. A small-minded robber with big plans is motivated by the desire to escape the crushing force of ordinary life. The female character, Vanning's love interest, is a bit thin, but the other primary characters have full personalities.
Noir is dark by definition, but Goodis filled his novels with the contrast of color. The interiors of apartments have paintings of orange sunsets over gray-green water hanging on sky blue walls. Goodis changes up his prose style, sometimes writing stark sentences, sometimes rambling. He tells the story in the first person but Vanning occasionally talks about himself in the third person, a symptom of his deteriorating mental status. Dialog is snappy. The resolution is satisfying, although perhaps too bright for a true noir tale. In short, although David Goodis wrote better books than Nightfall, the solid prose, tight plot, and insightful characterizations make Nightfall an enjoyable read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Satisfying noir
By TChris
Vanning is hiding out in Greenwich Village. He doesn't know Fraser is watching him. Neither does he know that two men who robbed a bank in Seattle are in New York, but he knows those men are after him. They think he has the $300,000 that was stolen from the bank. Fraser thinks Vanning might be the third robber. The evidence suggests that Vanning, using the name Dilks, met with a man named Harrison, killed him, and fled with the $300,000, cash that Harrison was supposed to launder. Yet Fraser can't wrap his head around Vanning's participation in a bank robbery, much less a murder. Vanning is a commercial artist, a former naval officer with no criminal record. Fraser doesn't want to arrest Vanning until he knows he can recover the money, but his doubts about Vanning's guilt haunt him because the evidence is probably sufficient to send Vanning to the electric chair.
When the two robbers catch up with Vanning, he claims he doesn't know where the money is. Is Vanning telling the truth? In a plot worthy of a Hitchcock movie (Nightfall was filmed but not by Hitchcock), Vanning is the traditional figure who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Vanning is torn between his desire to go to the police and his certainty that the police will always follow the easy path. The evidence points to Vanning's guilt and Vanning knows that nothing he can say to the police will convince them otherwise -- especially given his inability to produce the $300,000 that he knows he once had. It's the missing money that sets Nightfall apart from other thrillers that follow the "innocent man trying to prove his innocence" formula.
This isn't David Goodis' most suspenseful novel, but the plot is intriguing. Nightfall is the kind of low key crime novel that modern authors, obsessed with martial arts and car chases, seem unable to replicate. The novel's thrills come from tension rather than action. Its focus is on psychology rather than gunplay. The story's violent moments are explosive but contained, usually related in a paragraph or two. Goodis tosses a love story into the mix that I thought was unconvincing, but that reaction was tempered by the knowledge that Vanning isn't capable of thinking clearly.
Goodis gives the gift of realism to his characters. Responding to the stress of an untenable situation, Vanning slowly comes unglued. He behaves foolishly and can't understand why. He feels himself being dragged down in "a whirlpool of defeat." He's disappointed in himself ("I can't get a practical thought in my head," he says), but as Fraser tells him, if we really knew ourselves, "we'd be adding machines instead of human beings." Frasier suffers from crippling self-doubt as he worries that Vanning has either escaped or been captured by the robbers. A small-minded robber with big plans is motivated by the desire to escape the crushing force of ordinary life. The female character, Vanning's love interest, is a bit thin, but the other primary characters have full personalities.
Noir is dark by definition, but Goodis filled his novels with the contrast of color. The interiors of apartments have paintings of orange sunsets over gray-green water hanging on sky blue walls. Goodis changes up his prose style, sometimes writing stark sentences, sometimes rambling. He tells the story in the first person but Vanning occasionally talks about himself in the third person, a symptom of his deteriorating mental status. Dialog is snappy. The resolution is satisfying, although perhaps too bright for a true noir tale. In short, although David Goodis wrote better books than Nightfall, the solid prose, tight plot, and insightful characterizations make Nightfall an enjoyable read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
David Goodis' "Nightfall" Reissued
By Robin Friedman
This book is a new paperback issue of David Goodis' 1947 novel, "Nightfall" or "The Dark Chase". Goodis' work has received a great deal of attention in recent years, particularly after the Library of America's publication of a volume of five of his novels, including "Nightfall" in 2012. I reviewed an old, obscure edition of this novel two years ago, and I am pleased to see that it is now accessible in its own right, separate from the LOA compilation. My earlier review written September 12, 2012, "Loneliness and Fear in Greenwich Village" is given below.
The Library of America has recently published a volume of five novels written in the 1940's and 50's by the noir writer David Goodis (1917 -- 1967). David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s (Library of America) Published in 1947, "Nightfall" is the second novel in the LOA collection. The book was reissued in paperback in the 1950's under several titles, including "The Dark Chase". In the 1950's, the book became well-known. It was adopted for television specials and in 1956 became a film directed by Jacques Tourneur, with stars including Aldo Ray and Anne Bancroft. I wanted to discuss the novel here, under the single edition, to give it more attention than would be possible in a review of the entire LOA volume.
As "Nightfall" shows, Goodis was a writer who understood aching loneliness as well as crime fiction. Although many places and event are weaved in, the story takes place over two summer days in Greenwich Village, New York City, shortly after WW II. The primary character, Jim Vanning, 33, has served as a Navy officer and is looking forward to resuming his career as a commercial artist and to finding a wife and love. After his discharge in San Francisco, he buys a car and heads East. While in Colorado, he involuntarily becomes involved with a group of robbers who have stolen $300,000 cash from a Seattle bank. Vanning is able to kill one of the criminals in self-defense and he flees with a satchel containing the $300,000 with the intent of going to the police. He loses the satchel in a panic in woods surrounding Denver and becomes a fugitive, eventually winding up in Greenwich Village where he finds a good job as a freelance commercial artist. Both the police and the group of robbers are on Vanning's trail, and he knows it.
This brief outline of the plot does not capture "Nightfall". Goodis offers a portrayal of a tormented man, unsure of what happened and of what he did with the stolen money. Much of the book takes place in Vanning's head through internalized soliloquies as he relives and tries to recreate the events of the evening in Denver that made him a fugitive. In addition to fearing for his safety and life, Vanning suffers from his lonely life and from his need for love, a woman, and a family. He meets a buxom, lonely young divorcee, Martha, 26, and begins a passionate courtship.
Goodis also develops the character of two other male characters. Fraser is a detective who has been trailing Vanning. He is happily married, a father of three, and has a strong interest in human psychology. He knows that Vanning has killed a man, but he is convinced that Vanning is innocent of any crime. The other character, John, is the leader of the three criminals who trace Vanning to New York in their search for the $300,000. Although hardened and brutal, John is not without sympathy as he shares with Vanning his own dreams of love.
Much of the book has a surrealistic tone as Vanning struggles with what happened. During a severe beating from the thugs, Vanning reflects on his dreams for life. Here is a short excerpt from an extended passage in which Goodis gets inside Vanning's mind.
"He had a weakness for the moon. It gave him pain, but he wanted to see it up there. And beyond that want, so far beyond it, so futile, was the want for someone to be at his side, looking at the moon as he looked at it, sharing the moon with him. He was so lonely. And sometimes in this loneliness he became exceedingly conscious of his age, and he told himself he was missing out on the one thing he wanted above all elee, a woman to love, a woman wih whom he could make a home. A home. And children. He almost wept whenever he thought about it and realized how far away it was."
The book includes portrayals of isolated, lonely people, honest struggling individuals and criminals as well, trying to make human connection. Goodis portrays singles in lonely apartments and in bars and restaurants looking for someone else. There are scenes in fleeing taxis, art gallerys, and soda fountains in which the characters somehow share with strangers their loneliness and need for love.
The writing of the book is taut and does what the author wants it to do. Goodis had worked for years churning out stories for pulp magazines, and in the process he learned his craft. The writing in "Nightfall" is not as lyrical as in some other Goodis books, but it is full of psychological acuity and understanding.
"Nightfall" is more optimistic in its vision than some of Goodis. Filled with lonely people and city life, Goodis' novels are getting the attention they deserve through the Library of America volume. I am looking forward to reading more of this author and to discussing him here on Amazon.
Robin Friedman
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