Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Shark-filled Custard

From: sonny ( sforstater@yahoo.com)
Date: 22 Jan 2008


for an unpublished work, Grimhaven seems to get around

--- Dave Zeltserman < dz@hardluckstories.com> wrote:

> There's a nice subversive streak in the best of Willeford. My
> favorites: The Woman Chaser, Cockfighter, Grimhaven (which is one of
> the most unrelenting darkest books I've read). I did like Shark-
> Infested Custard quite a bit, but the structure (telling a story from
> different perspectives) was unusual for him. If this is the best noir
> novel you've read, I've got to strongly recommend Hell of a Woman,
> Savage Night, The Getaway and Swell-Looking Babe (all by Jim
> Thompson), Name of the Game is Death by Dan Marlowe and Anyone's My
> Name by Seymour Shubin.
>
> --Dave Z.
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, <funkmasterj@...> wrote:
> >
> > I finished reading this last night, the only Willeford I've read.
> This is the best noir novel I've ever read! Unlike James Cain, the
> situations are believable. It is both dark and humorous at the same
> time. What are the other Willeford books like?
> >
> > Jordan
> >
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