And she must look at it but she can't.[5]. Black Wings Has My Angel, by Elliott Chaze (1953) Yes, another NYRB Classic, and yes, another American midcentury hard-lives tale set in the West.
[8], This novel was reprinted in other editions: as One for My Money (1962), Berkley. It is a page turner full of unexpected plot twists, and literary quality aside, it is pulp fiction at its most sensational. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The book was brought to my attention by Edward Gorman and Max Collins, both of whom had written admiringly about it. I appreciated that I had no idea where the book was going, but was let down by the ending. Virginia is accustomed to rolling in dough, literally, and more than a bit money-mad, so she has no trouble going along with Sunblade’s plan to rob an armoured car in Denver.
Gifford believes Black Wings Has My Angel is a gem that still sparkles and has hopes that another movie will be made based on it.
My only disappointment at all in this book was the ending. This goes to my top shelf. Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze and One Is a Lonely Number by Bruce Elliott Over the years Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel has taken on a near-legendary status, and become one of the most sought-after of Gold Medal novels.
We’d love your help. He worked for a time for AP's Denver office after paratrooper service in WWII, and then migrated south to Mississippi where he spent twenty years as a reporter and award-winning columnist.
It has been described as "a flawless heist novel".
Black Wings Has My Angel is hard hitting noir, the best kind, barbed with minimal, beautifully turned sentences that stick into your skin like a lover’s cruel words. Black Wings Has My Angel is a roller-coaster of a read; lightning fast and a lot of fun. Lewis Elliott Chaze (November 15, 1915 – November 11, 1990) was an American war veteran, journalist, and novelist. Neither character is who they appear and both are running from a past that haunts them. Apparently there was a French adaptation, but it wasn’t very good. The story of an armored car heist is only part of the story--the rest is a kind of infuriating Wild at Heart-ish, or maybe more Romeo is Bleeding-ish story of doomed and mutually reinforcing abuse love.
Tim Sunblade plans and jacks an armored truck (he calls it a "car") with his high class call girl Virginia in Denver.
Melancholy drips from the pages and you just know from page one onwards that this story will end in regret and misery. He was thick built and tall, with a meaty face and chocolate brown hair and eyes.
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He wants to check out the house of Nona Hickman, an old girlfriend, when they are stopped suddenly by a cop. True to form, Gold Medal's teaser for this 1953 paperback pitched it somewhere … Virginia's aim in life is to literally bathe in cash. Damn good writing!