William Denton wrote:
Did O'Brien say that? Huh. HARDBOILED AMERICA was my
introduction to hardboild and noir writing and though I don't
go back to it often I have fond memories of it.
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"These images, originally designed to pulsate with life, have
aged enough so that we are no longer likely to mistake them
for part of the real world. The men and women frozen in such
portentous tableau of fear and anguish and violence and
desire are now more likely to evoke hearty laughter than the
heavy breathing they solicited so strenuously when, newly
created, they bared their passion on thousands of newsstands
across America."
I think that O'Brien was portraying a generic impression of a
contemporary public rather than his own opinion of them. The
first part of O'Brien's book concentrates on the covers, but
he eventually delves into the texts.
miker
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