Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 23:53:44 -0500
> >The use of cliches in a novel is no great sin,
but only if they are
> >employed in an uninspiring and boring
fashion.
Could you run that one by me again?
Hey, I got a book for you, if you can find a copy: _Let Them
Eat Bullets_, by Howard Schoenfeld. Is that a great title?
1954 Gold Medal Book, reprinted a couple of times over the
years. My copy is a 1959 third printing. This is Schoenfeld's
only novel, as far as I know. He's probably better known for
a surreal, much anthologized short story called "Built Up
Logically." Very funny. So's _Bullets_. It stars a tough
private eye and his twin brother, a staid college professor.
Boucher is quoted on the back cover as saying it comes
"...complete with gangsters, blackmail, corpses galore and a
nympho-sadist with arrested development..." What more could
one ask?
BobT
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