Thanks to Mark the anonymous for referring us to Patrick
Anderson's the review of Richard Aleas's *Songs of
Innocence.*
Here's the URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/15/AR2007071501311.html
You'll probably have to rejoin the two lines to get
there.
The review is a good one, and in spite of my ever shrinking
book budget, I'm going to get this one.
Aside to Bill Denton, what's the chance of our making this a
discussion book in August or September.
But he says something that I think we might want to discuss:
"And yet noir always offers a glimmer of hope."
Does true noir have even a glimmer of hope? Isn't the
downward, inevitable slope of the poor slump of the protag,
or the fear that the bastard villain will succeed, the point
of noir?
Jack Bludis
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