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The Night of the Hunter
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‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money – and a relentless psychopath is on their trail…Harry ‘Preacher’ Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil’s work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man’s family lives. As he hunts them down, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.
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| Weight | 0.194 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 13 × 19.9 cm |
| Author(s) | |
| Format Old` | |
| Language | |
| Pages | 256 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2023-7-13 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241640423 |
| About The Author | Davis Grubb was born in the Ohio River town of Moundsville, West Virginia in 1919 and died in New York City in 1980. He lived a various life, writing novels and short stories, screenplays, television treatments and working as a radio announcer. The Night of the Hunter was shortlisted for the 1955 National Book Award and in the same year was made into a legendary film starring Robert Mitchum as Preacher. |
Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter remains the gold standard of southern noir. Grubb's unforgettably charismatic and psychopathic villain, Harry Powell, still has the power to flood your twenty-first century dreams with terror. |
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| Other text | A thriller which commands one's frozen attention. It is also a work of beauty and power and astonishing verbal magic. |
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