Big Bounce was literature? It's been quite some time since
I've read it, but literature? I can't think of a single
Leonard book that is literature, but many are damn fine crime
novels.
Could this whole crime fiction that is literature label
really tell us more about the person making the claim than
about the book in question? Could it be that those making
these claims feel insecure about enjoying genre fiction and
feel a need to elevate any they do enjoy to give it
legitimacy?
What the hell is wrong with something being a damn fine crime
novel? I've enjoyed a lot of those a lot more than a lot of
the capital-L Literature I've read (which is arguably a genre
of its own).
Mark
ps -- Also, Travis McGee was right-wing? He was certainly
conservative in his thoughts about the changes to Florida
(and anti-business, at least in how business had changed his
home) and could be a bit of a fuddy-duddy about people
leading more "liberated" lifestyles than his own, but his own
was far from conservative for its time.
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