--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry you didn't like CUTTER AND BONE. I'll
admit
> that maybe the plot wasn't the best, but I
thought
> the
> writing was some of the sharpest I'd come across
for
> a
> while.
>
> miker
I think the Seventies are the great lost decade in
hardboiled. It was a time when a lot of people were evidently
trying to do "serious" hb or "literary" hb, or something like
it. The best efforts of the decade are extraordinarily
good:
FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE LAST GOOD KISS COCAINE AND BLUE EYES
(arguably the great forgotten novel of the decade) NIGHT OF
THE TOADS DOG SOLDIERS THE UNDERGROUND MAN
etc.
But a lot of the experimentation didn't work. I think the
first half of CUTTER is the best.
doug
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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