Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chaze
Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chaze
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Black Wings Has My Angel

Author: Elliott Chaze

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/18/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

She had the face of a madonna and a heart of dollar bills.Black Wings Has My Angel, Elliott Chazes pulp classic, is the dreamlike tale of a man after a jailbreak who meets up with the woman of his dreamsand his nightmares.Black Wings Has My Angel, a phenomenal work of the period and a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in more than half a century.

About Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze (1915–1990) was an old-school newspaper man who began his journalism career with the New Orleans bureau of the Associated Press shortly before Pearl Harbor, worked for a time for AP’s Denver office after paratrooper service in WWII, and then migrated south to Mississippi where he spent twenty years as a reporter and award-winning columnist. He is the author of several novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 22, 2020

Goodreads friend William Donelson boldly asserts this isn’t a novel to be read; this is a novel to be felt and a novel to be lived. After my own experience with Elliott Chaze's noir black angel, feeling its dramatic intensity and living through every single page with narrator Tim Sunblade and his be......more

Goodreads review by Vit on October 16, 2020

Those who abide in the noir world are meaner and greedier and their thoughts are always blacker and even the angels there fly on the black wings. This is the angel… The brown speckles in the lavender-gray eyes, floating very close to the surface when I kissed her, the eyes wide open and aware. But not......more

Goodreads review by James on April 27, 2014

Black Wings Has My Angel was originally published in 1953 as a Gold Medal mass-market paperback, one of the hundreds of pulpish novels aimed at male readers that filled paperback book racks in drugstores and other such places all over the country in the Fifties. For whatever reason, though, and unli......more

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