Thanks for putting forward the case for TOBACCO ROAD so
eloquently, Charlie.
And hell, yeah, BUCKET NUT is brilliant. For some reason I
thought it was published post-1997. That one slipped through
the net and I'll fix it next time I update the website.
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Williams" <
cs_will@hotmail.com> To: <
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20, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Allan Guthrie's Top
200 Noirs
>I wouldn't call THE MALTESE FALCON or THE BIG SLEEP
noir at all.
> TOBACCO ROAD I would, but coming from an unusual
angle. It is full of
> despair and hopelessness and awful actions glossed
over, and things
> only get worse. Also each character is damned. (I
often look at
> Thomas Hardy as noir for the same reasons. There's
even a few tough
> colloquialisms in there.)
>
> Interesting observation about female authors of
noir, though. Maybe
> it's a male thing? I would have Liza Cody's BUCKET
NUT books up there
> though.
>
> Charlie.
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