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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "e_lynskey"
<e_lynskey@...> wrote:
>
> To piggy-back on my previous email re: Stark House's
new Gil Brewer
> twofer, I finished the second novel, THE THREE-WAY
SPLIT. It's also set
> in Florida, this time involving a shipwreck and
treasure (like a
> Charles Williams sea noir). Nice tension between the
son and rogue
> father, and quite different than DEVIL. Both novels
are great stuff.
>
And piggybacking on your post to tie it in with another
thread, Gil Brewer's work is proof that you can hook the
reader and write fine noir stuff while disregarding realism.
But they all do it: Willeford, Thompson, Goodis, Woolrich...
even William Campbell Gault in his marvellous noir _Death Out
of Focus_. For some reason, a noir story allows for greater
suspension of disbelief than other types of crime stories.
The reader apparently cuts the author a lot of slack in
exchange for a damn good yarn.
Best,
mrt
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