Black Wings Has My Angel
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Elliott Chaze. (2016). Black Wings Has My Angel. New York Review Books.

Elliott Chaze. 2016. Black Wings Has My Angel. New York Review Books.

Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel. New York Review Books, 2016.

Elliott Chaze. Black Wings Has My Angel. New York Review Books, 2016.

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     Elliott Chaze (1915–1990) was born in Mamou, Louisiana, and attended Washington and Lee, Tulane, and the University of Oklahoma before joining the New Orleans bureau of the Associated Press. He served in the army during the Second World War and was stationed in Japan in the early days of the American occupation, an experience that informed his first novel, The Stainless Steel Kimono (1947). After returning to the United States and living for a time in Denver, Chaze moved to Mississippi, where he would spend the rest of his career as a reporter, columnist, and city editor at the Hattiesburg American. In all, Chaze wrote nine novels, including Goodbye Goliath, Wettermark, and Tiger in the Honeysuckle, and contributed articles and short stories to Life, Reader’s Digest, The New Yorker, Redbook, Collier’s, and Cosmopolitan.
     Barry Gifford has written fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays, and librettos, and has contributed to many publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Brick, Film Comment, and The New York Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, Ball Lightning, and The Phantom Father. Among his most recent books are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, The Roy Stories, The Up-Down, and Writers.
     

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During the 1950s, Gold Medal Books introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but one of the finest of them of all, Elliott Chaze, remains unjustly obscure. Now, for the first time in half a century, Chaze’s story of doomed love on the run returns to print in a trade paperback edition.
When Tim Sunblade escapes from prison, his sole possession is an infallible plan for the ultimate heist. Trouble is it’s a two-person job. So when he meets Virginia, a curiously well-spoken “ten-dollar tramp,” and discovers that the only thing she cares for is “drifts of money, lumps of it,” he knows he’s met his partner. What he doesn’t suspect is that this lavender-eyed angel might just prove to be his match. 
Black Wings Has My Angel careens through a landscape of desperate passion and wild reversals. It is a journey you will never forget.

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   • source: Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
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     "[W]hat remains unforgettable is [Chaze's] lovers' cat-and-mouse relationship, as high-voltage as the one depicted in James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice. Everything -- murder, betrayal, self-sacrifice, great physical and psychological suffering -- ultimately comes to seem trivial compared with the visceral intensity connecting Tim and Virginia."

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   • source: Molly Boyle, Pasatiempo
   • content: "The exquisite writing is surprisingly contemporary, which makes it hard not to get sucked into this violent, vintage world...[Chaze] clearly knew the power of a good story, but more importantly, he had the style, in spades, to tell it with. This demonic artifact is the real deal; with its reemergence, fans of both pulp and literary fiction have reason to rejoice."
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   • source: Bill Pronzini
   • content: "Black Wings Has My Angel is an indisputable noir classic, arguably the best of all the crime novels published by Gold Medal during its glory years...The details of the crime and its aftermath are vividly described, and the love-hate relationship between Sunblade and the woman and the demons in both that lead to their downfall are masterpieces of dark-side character development...Elliott Chaze was a fine prose stylist, witty, insightful, nostalgic, and irreverent, and a first-class storyteller."
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   • source: Graham Fuller
   • content: "Chaze was an electrifying hard-boiled prose stylist. There was clearly a humorous glint in his eye when he wrote, though he never allows the sleaze to get out of hand or undercut his story's existential drift or its Cain-like fatalism."
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   • source: Ed Gorman

   • content: "Chaze is known in pulp circles for his flawless novel Black Wings Hath My Angel, which many people feel is the single best novel Gold Medal published during its heyday."

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