Normally when it comes to Best this or that, I find myself stymied by a
deluge of favorites and unable to choose from among them. However, in the
case of best noir novel, it's pretty easy for me: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS
TWICE. To me, it encapsulates everything a noir novel should have, and has
nothing it shouldn't...and it does so in a way that's so organically and
stylistically pure that it's like typed art, a timeless American
masterpiece.
It was for many years my favorite novel, period...until I read Cormac
McCarthy's THE ROAD (which could arguably be called noir...but I'm
disinclined to make that argument).
Ron C.
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