In a message dated 7/18/02 5:17:58 AM,
e_lynskey@yahoo.com writes:
<< What impressed me most was the dialogue if just for
its original and freshness. >>
I guess it doesn't feel as original
and fresh to some who are seeing it for the first time today,
just as the impact of Higgins' early work is now sometimes
lost on those just coming to it.
I sometimes meet young people who say
they've just read Coyle and it's good, but it sounds like a
lot of other stuff, better maybe, but not all that original.
At the time he did it, it was mind blowing. No one had
captured
"the life" to the degree that he did. Leonard and Pelecanos
and J.G. Dunne and many of the other best among today's
writer's owe more to George V. than to anyone else who came
before them. George lives.
Jim
Blue
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