Mark, about Hughes's IN A LONELY PLACE:
> By the way, that's the only Hughes I've read and I
was going to
> recommend it. It's also a good example of a woman
writing convincing
> men, as is Leigh Brackett. However, convincing '40s
men are not the
> same as convincing contemporary men, as books now
include far more
> development of character, gender, personality traits
and interests that
> do not bear directly on the plot. However, this is
not meant to imply
> that Hughes's men lack depth.
************** Thanks for the recommendation. I had heard
comments on SO BLUE MARBLE and the pink horse one, but there
are a bunch of them listed in the Hardboiled America
list.
I haven't read any women authors in a long time. I
think that as we go thru the first few decades of
hardboiled/noir, I'd like to become aware of some of the
women authors. There aren't any in the pre-1940 era, are
there?
miker
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