--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
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.
Well, it's meant to be dreamlike, nightmarish, to some
extent, at least some of the time.
And, fwiw, THREE WAY SPLIT was adapted for a good movie,
teasingly entitled 3-WAY.
Todd Mason
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