Toby Muse’s Reviews > Nightfall > Status Update

Not top notch Goodis. It feels like an early entry, a regular crime pulp, there is a sense of doom, but it’s forced rather than lived in like the later novels. He escapes and gets the girl!
That is not a Goodis book.
His best work is with the born losers, the bums, the drunks who for a moment forget they’re damned before the world reminds them. Goodis doesn’t write novels, he writes long suicide notes.