All of Patricia Highsmith's novels and especially her novels
about serial murderer, Thomas Ripley, have the quality of
noir except that Ripley is not 'doomed,' unless he's doomed
to live with himself. He's the most successful and endearing
serial murderer in fiction. Also, many of Ruth Rendell's
novels, especially The Bridesmaid and The Lake of Darkness,
but really most of them, are great noir stories. Her
Inspector Wexford novels are perhaps more police proceedural
novels, but they all have elements of noir.
Patrick King
---
mhall@berkeley.edu wrote:
>
> > "Vicki Hendricks's Iguana Love is outstanding,
as
> is Natsuo Kirino's
> > Out."
> >
> > I agree with those endorsements.
> >
> > Out got huge write-ups when it came
out,
> deservedly so. However, that
> > was years ago. No other Kirino books (from what
I
> understand, she's
> > pretty prolific in Japanese) have been
translated.
> Did Out not sell
> > well enough to warrant others?
> >
> > Mark
>
> Amazon lists--
>
> Grotesque by Kirino & Copeland
> Hardcover: 480 pages
> Publisher: Knopf (March 13, 2007)
> Language: English
> ISBN-10: 1400044944
> ISBN-13: 978-1400044948
>
> Disparitions by Kirino and Chupin
> Paperback
> Publisher: Editions du Rocher (May 27,
2002)
> ISBN-10: 2268042618
> ISBN-13: 978-2268042619
> (This may actually be in French...)
>
> Don't forget too, good translations take time to
do.
> And Japanese, like
> English, is one of those idiom-filled languages
with
> a lot of subtle
> nuances.
>
> Best, MEH
>
>
>
>
>
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