RE: RARA-AVIS: Sugar by Gil Brewer

From: Ron Clinton (clinton65@comcast.net)
Date: 06 Jul 2009

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    Great to hear Brewer is enjoying more reprints beyond the ones by Stark House and Hard Case Crime. The ones you've chosen are quite good -- THE RED SCARF is perhaps his best work.

    Ron C.

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    > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
    > Behalf Of newpulppress
    > Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 3:45 PM
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    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Sugar by Gil Brewer
    >
    > There seems to be quite a Gil Brewer revival, similar to the one Jim
    Thompson
    > enjoyed in the 80's and 90's. New Pulp Press will be reissuing two of his
    novels
    > later this year and early next: FLIGHT TO DARKNESS and THE RED SCARF. If
    > you haven't read Brewer, do yourself a favor and pick up a couple of his
    novels.
    > They can be hit and miss because of the feverish speed that he wrote, but
    he
    > deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Jim Thompson/James M.Cain.
    >
    > Jon Bassoff
    > New Pulp Press
    >
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