Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V1 #54

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• From: "Richard L. King" <rlking@marsh.vinu.edu>
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:03:10 -0500
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Larson, Craig wrote:
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> When Alexander Cooley Ives wrote that _American Tabloid_ is
> "a crime novel.  It is not hardboiled," I have to admit that I
> find myself scratching my head.  Are the two mutually
> exclusive?  Cannot a crime novel also be a hardboiled novel?
> Aren't most hardboiled novels concerned in some way with
> crime?
> 
> Craig Larson
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Any book when someone holds another person's face against the red-hot
electric burner of a stove to make him talk is hard-boiled. Yes,
American Tabloid is hard boiled.

Richard King
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