Hi Greg,
I guess I've never seen Pelacanos as
a guy who did anything "slyly," and even if I believed he's
doing what you say he's doing, ("intruding the postmodern on
the neo-realistic world") after the first fifty or so
iterations, I'd have to say "OKAY. I"VE GOT IT. GET ON WITH
THE STORY! I believe that one of the first, and few,
obligations of the fiction writer, and especially the
hard-boiled crime writer, is to tell a fast, lean tale.
George P. can do that; he just chooses (often) not to do it,
and I think the other stuff becomes mannered, author speak,
and gets in the way of his story, a mistake Hammett never
made.
Jim
Blue
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