Goodis () was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage); an artist whose life turns nightmarish because of a cache of stolen money (Nightfall); a dockworker seeking to comprehend his sister's brutal death (The Moon in the Gutter); a /5(83). · The Moon in the Gutter: Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading. He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They 6/10(K). Among these novels is "The Moon in the Gutter" written in and set in a poor decaying section of Philadelphia. The book is included in a collection of five Goodis novels recently published by the Library of America. David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the s and 50s (Library of America) Each of the five books deserves individual attention. In , Goodis' novel was loosely adapted for a French film, /5(22).
The Moon in the Gutter () is one of David Goodis's many tours of the down-and-out neighborhoods of his native city of Philadelphia. William Kerrigan's pursuit of the riddle of his sister's death in an obscure alleyway provides the starting point for a tortuous journey into "the darkness of all lost dreams.". Goodis was perfectly frank about rape in Street of the Lost, The Moon in the Gutter [the image below is from the French adaptation], Of Tender Sin, and Night Squad. Those paperbacks were meant to be frank about sex and violence, which was why they flew off newsstand racks and why, as well, they were examples of how moral crusades about. The Moon in the Gutter: Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. With Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading. He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together or do they?
The Moon in the Gutter by David Goodis. My rating: 2 of 5 stars. This is not so much a novel as a short sequence of events that goes nowhere. It has the kind of fatalism that noir is known for: the protagonist who is doomed. In this case he is trapped by his own limited sense of identity. The Moon in the Gutter () is one of David Goodis’s many tours of the down-and-out neighborhoods of his native Philadelphia. William Kerrigan’s pursuit of the riddle of his sister’s death in an obscure alleyway provides the starting point for a tortuous journey into “the darkness of all lost dreams.”. David Goodis is commonly ranked in the top tier of noir novelists, and The Moon in the Gutter is commonly ranked among his best work. One recent example: in The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (), Barry Forshaw cites The Moon in the Gutter as his representative Goodis text in arguing that, of all the noir novelists, "Goodis comes the closest to the existential angst of Camus and Sartre.".
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