The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
The Expendable Man cover

The Expendable Man

Dorothy B. Hughes

0

awards won

3

score

#4834 of 8,085 books · #1577 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1964).

"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
New York Review of Books
ISBN-13
9781590175095
Topics
Racism and prejudiceWrongful accusationMid-century American society

Awards

Other awarded books from Dorothy B. Hughes

Dorothy B. Hughes has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.

If you liked The Expendable Man, you could also like these

Similar Topics