Now THAT genre has a ring to it! ;-)
At any rate, I might've missed it but as an example, how
about SWAMP SISTER by Robert Edmond Alter? Woodrell is great
(by the way, Woe to Live On is pretty bleak -- Civil War
Noir?), but for my money
"...Sister" fills the bill in a big way...
Thanks, Dave
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Channing"
<filmtroll@...> wrote:
>
> For Redneck noir books I would nominate James
Crumley's books
especially
> the later ones. Mexican Tree Duck features Crumley's
great Sughrue, an
> alcoholic, drug-addicted private detective in a
small Montana town, but
> originally from Texas, who first takes on, then
befriends a biker
gang that lives
> in a burned out school bus. Then Sughure rounds up a
team of
burned-out
> Vietnam vets who seem to enjoy reliving the war, and
who happily
stay in an
> old hippie commune in rural Texas while working the
case. Sughrue
would
> happily classify himself as a "redneck." All of
Crumley's books are
solid noir.
>
> I also suggest Stephen Hunter's Dirty White Boys,
which is more
heavy on the
> redneck than the noir. Sure, Bud Pewtie (a truly
great redneck
name) is a
> Sheriff of a rural town, but he's an alcoholic cop,
having an affair
with his
> partners wife while his life swirls out of is
control, which
qualifies as noir. Bud
> takes on a twisted redneck escaped convict named
Lamar Pye and his
> deranged, apparently inbred brother Odell, The book
turns into a
> Terminator-esque series of shoot-outs at the end,
but in the early
parts when
> the book focuses on Lamar's prison story it's
entertaining and very
noir.
>
> Chan
>
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