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In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place

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by Dorothy B. Hughes

Book Details

Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2017
Language: en
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ISBN: 9781681371474
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High confidence: 85%

Looky Rating System Score adjusted for ages 18+

Content Intensity

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💥ViolenceNotable
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❤️Love & RomanceLow
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🧠Mental HealthModerate
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💬!*$#LanguageLow
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🍷🚬Substance UseLow
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😨Fear / HorrorNotable

Story Themes

What is this book about? Higher scores mean the theme is more central to the plot — not a warning.

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🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
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🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
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Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

Description

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.

Themes & Topics

FictionNoirThrillersSuspenseMystery & DetectiveHard-Boiled

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