Mark incidently asked:
> And the Jack Early books, was it obvious to readers
that they were
> written by a woman before the name was reveal to be
a pseudonym?
Knowing Scoppettone was the author, I read (and translated)
'Donato and Daughter', a Jack Early which has 3 POVs, 2 of
them male (a cop and a serial killer) and one female (a cop).
My feeling was Scoppettone does a very good job with the male
cop voice.
Anyway, while reading, i asked myself if one could guess Jack
Early was in fact a woman, and the only thing obvious to me
was that the author was a feminist. But i'm a woman, so i'm
probably biased.
BTW A clue that can you make recognize SS: I've noticed that
in almost all her books, she has a scene where a POV
character sees a cop/detective/whoever is in a mostly 'male'
line of work … and when the dialogue begins, we're shocked to
realize the POV character is in fact talking to a
woman.
(...)
> I've also wondered if, in general, women might not
be better at writing
> from a male point of view than men from a female,
simply because the
> male point of view has been so hegemonic and women
have been forced to
> work within it for so long that they can ape it,
while men have been
> more able to ignore the alternative.
I quite agree with that. With the enormous female production
of the last 10-15 years in the crime fiction field, the trend
might be reversed soon, though. <G>
NM
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