Mark writes about Hughes viz In a Lonely Place,
One thing just struck me, though, about this generation of
female hardboiled writers, they had male protagonists --
Hughes, Leigh Brackett; does the same apply to
Hitchens?
Don't know the answer to that one, but it is certainly true
that Hughes' writing clearly matures, in The Fallen Sparrow,
when she makes a male the focal character. She seems to have
more freedom in choosing moral and psychological
tendencies,whereas similar tendencies, especially the moral
ones, are typed in female characters. The earnest protagonist
and her murderous sister in The So Blue Marble, for instance.
Or the blond socialite and the dark-haired, loyal companion
in Ride the Pink Horse.
Bill Hagen
billha@ionet.net
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