Shoot the Piano Player

Once upon a time Eddie played concert 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.

Author: David Goodis
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 10/03/1990
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.27w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780679732549
ISBN10: 0679732543
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
- Fiction | Noir

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.