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>From: "Mario Taboada" <
matrxtech@yahoo.com>
> > If you can find a copy of Cockfighter, I highly
recommend
> > it. I must have read that book three or four
times. It's
> > hypnotic.
>
>It's currently in print, published by No Exit as part
of their Charles
>Willeford Omnibus, which also contains one of the
best noir novels ever,
>"Pick-Up". Which reminds me, has anyone read "The
Difference"? Canongate
>reprinted it last year and, like practically every
other book on their
>crime
>list, I bought a copy. Still haven't got round to
reading it, though. If
>only you could buy the time to read....
>
>Al Guthrie
>
I read "The Difference" a while ago. It's fairly short, and
definitely worthwhile. Not in the same league as
"Cockfighter", but still vintage Willeford. It's a Western
set in the late 19th century that focuses on a young outlaw
who gets involved in a family feud. The cross between Western
and noir works very well. Genre mixtures like this are often
interesting. I've been reading Alfred Bester's "Demolished
Man" (from 1953), and so far it's shaping up to be a good
mixture of the hardboiled detective story with science
fiction.
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