RARA-AVIS: Highsmith

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Thu, 19 Feb 1998 19:22:42 +0100 <fontfamily><param>Times</param><bigger><bigger>I have not read
Highsmith's Ripley books in some time but I do remember that the last
book of the series -Ripley Under Water- was not a vintage one. At the
time I read it I felt that Highsmith had lost touch with the French
society she was supposed to use as background and that the plot was too
predictable and lacked originality. I loved the other Ripley novels
and Hignsmith did not live up to my expectations with that sequel.

On the subject of good contemporary practitioners of the genre, has
anybody read stuff by Robert Sims Reid? His latest book -Wild Animals-
(published by Carroll & Graf) may be more noir than hardboiled but I
wonder if it should not deserve more attention than what it got when it
was published last year.</bigger></bigger></fontfamily>

<fontfamily><param>Times</param><bigger><bigger>And what about Canadian
writers of hardboiled fiction?

Jean-Fran=E7ois</bigger></bigger></fontfamily>

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