In a message dated 7/12/02 10:00:06 AM,
billha47@hotmail.com writes:
<< I too wouldn't defend polemic passages if they don't
arise from the reality and characters portrayed. But as in
Grapes of Wrath or other "mainstream" titles, anger or crime
arises in part from social conditions. >>
This is really a discussion about
good writing and poor writing. If it comes off as a narrative
stopping polemic, it's bad writing, just as it is when a
writer can't resist sticking in extraneous information
regarding any other topic. The politics and social commentary
in all of the writing of George Pelecanos, and George Higgins
and Walter Mosely and Manuel Ramos (and in Dennis Lehane's "A
Drink Before The War") is woven through the story because it
is part of the story. Some folks never even notice that it is
there.
Jim
Blue
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