we were talking about Cain, and I remember the first line of
Postman is, "They threw me off the hay truck about noon." He
isn't a hobo throughout the story, but it seems like the
protagonist was hoboing prior to getting the gig at the
diner.
edward andersen's only other published book besides Thieves
Like Us, Hungry Men, is supposedly a classic hobo novel.
which leads to an additional question: what other noir
writers have also written hobo tales?
--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Widmer, in his essay "The Way Out" in Madden's
Tough
> Guy Writers of the Thirties, declares the
hardboiled
> character to be a direct descendant of the
hobo
> character. In the essay, he mentions the
hobo's
> appearance in several early-1900s
nonfiction
> literature. Have you read any hardboiled or
noir
> literature with a hobo as a main character?
What
> were
> they? What influence, if any, do you see the
hobo
> image as having on the hardboiled
character?
>
> miker
>
>
>
>
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