Cover of Black Wings Has My Angel

Black Wings Has My Angel

by Elliott Chaze, Malcolm Hillgartner

4.1
(13 ratings)
208 pages1953Dover Publications, IncorporatedISBN 9780486824055
ClassicsFictionRomance

About this book

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.

Publication Details

Publisher
Dover Publications, Incorporated
Published
1953
Pages
208
ISBN
9780486824055
Language
en

About Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze was born in Mamu, Louisiana. He went to high school in Alexandria, Louisiana, and graduated in 1932. After high school he attended three universities, finally receiving his B.A. from from Oklahoma University in 1937. He became a reporter for the New Orleans Bureau of the Associated Press shortly before Pearl Harbor, then served in the 11th Airborne Divison of the U.S. Army during World War II as a technical sergeant. After the war he remained in Japan for a time during the American occupation, then transferred to the AP's Denver office. In his spare time he wrote articles and short stories for magazines such as The New Yorker and Redbook and, occasionally, novels. His first novel, The Stainless Steel Kimono, was published in 1947, and his second novel, The Golden Tag, was published in 1950. In 1951, he moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and worked for the Hattiesburg American where he spent twenty years as a reporter and award-winning columnist then as city editor from 1970-1980. After he had retired from the Hattiesburg American, he wrote three more novels before his death in 1990.

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