Bill,
Re your comment below:
> I haven't read Michael Connelly's latest Harry
Bosch
> book,
> but hasn't he now switched from third-person
to
> first-person
> narration? I wonder when he'll decide it's
to
> restrictive
> and go to a combination of first and third, or
back
> to third
> entirely.
Connelly has always said that his greatest influence was
Chandler. In some respects, Bosch always seemed like the kind
of cop Marlowe might have been back in his official law
enforcement days, but the traditional, or at least more
common, narrative mode for police procedurals (Jack Webb and
Jonathan Craig, notwithstanding) is third person.
Now that he's made Bosch a private eye, he may have decided
to embrace the Chandler method more fully.
There is one Bosch story, set during his cop days, that
Connelly released at roughly the same time A DARKNESS MORE
THAN LIGHT came out, that Harry tells in the first person.
It's the story of a case that is referred to by characters in
ADMTL. I forget the title, but I recall that it was only
available on Connelly's website.
JIM DOHERTY
P.S.
If Bill will allow me one more non-hard-boiled digression, I
was able to personally wish Mom a Happy Mother's Day last
Sunday, although I wasn't able to travel to the Coast the see
her personally.
That I had a mother to send a card and a present to, and to
call up and speak to, rather than just a mother to remember,
I attribute, to a large degree, to the prayers and support of
my friends on this list when Mom was going through her
medical crisis. Thanks again.
J.D.
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