Fools Gold, Dolores Hitchens
Fools Gold, Dolores Hitchens
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Fools' Gold
A Library of America Audiobook Classic

Author: Dolores Hitchens

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a sheltered young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

About The Author

Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a prolific mystery writer, publishing Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools' Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen.Actor and screenwriter Scott Brick has won two Audies and over fifty Earphones Awards for his work as a narrator.

Reviews

Goodreads review by robin

Dolores Hitchens' "Fools Gold" Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold" is the fourth and final book included in a new Library of America anthology, "Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s" edited by Sarah Weinman, an authority on crime fiction written by women. A companion LOA volu......more

Goodreads review by Anthony

The very prolific Dolores Hitchens wrote this nifty little crime thriller back in 1958 and is a very worthwhile addition to the Library of America's Women Crime Writers of the 1950s omnibus. Not a long novel but one that incorporates an exciting suspense story with an interesting set of characters. Th......more

Goodreads review by Andy

This is a fast-paced and unostentatious tale of three young people, two boys just released from a juvenile detention, and an orphaned girl living with a seemingly wealthy foster parent. Steadily, they are torn apart by what starts as a simple plan of robbery. It’s of the bracket of the classic Ameri......more

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