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Shoot the Piano Player
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Shoot the Piano Player Paperback - 1990

by David Goodis

Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.


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Once upon a time Eddie played conert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past.
Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.

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  • Title Shoot the Piano Player
  • Author David Goodis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, New York
  • Date 1990-10-03
  • ISBN 9780679732549 / 0679732543
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.27 x 0.47 in (20.22 x 13.39 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90050255
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

David Goodis (1917-1967), born in Philadelphia, was a screenwriter and author of crime fiction well known for his novel Dark Passage. He wrote the screenplay for Dark Passage which starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. He had received a B.A. in Journalism from Temple University in 1938.
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