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176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1946
Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city and who now clung desperately to each other, as if already they felt the chilly solitude settling in.
The sky was even darker at five in the morning than at midnight. The streetlights did nothing to dispel the gloom, and the spitting rain threatened to continue all day.That chill in the air is not just the tense immediacy of the story, moment to moment, but the recognition of something personal, visceral, dreadful, and irreversible -- told in nearly police-ledger deadpan.