Charlie to Mark:
>> Gotta ask: who are the other two?
>
>> Mark
>
> Jim Thompson and Thomas Hardy. Always open to new
candidates though!
>
> I'd be interested to hear who your (and others'
here) top 3 are.
> Interesting from a genre POV.
For the record, I'd cast a vote for Hardy as one of the
greatest English prose stylists ever. I don't always go for
his peculiar melodrama (e.g., on the topic of fate), but man
can he write sentences.
I'd offer up Julian Barnes as one of the greatest living
prose stylists. I've not (yet) read his "Patrick Cavanaugh"
crime books--any opinions?
I've only read about half of Willeford's stuff--I'm saving a
lot of it to savor--but he's a fantastic writer, and one who
truly "rises above" any "genre" tag.
Mark Nevins
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