I hope I did not sound as though I didn't admire the Holloway
House
authors. Far from it. A novel the group might well consider
for
discussion is Donald Goins's DADDY COOL. It may be the finest
of all
the Holloway House novels, and certainly represents the kind
of fare
that small house has offered over the years. These are men
who knew
life in the ghetto from the ground up, and painted pictures
as stark as
Himes did, with a sense of utter realism. You can forgive a
certain
lack of facility in a prose style when you're being told a
story by
someone with the same sense of drama these writers could
instill.
Goins, in particular, could be as darkly ironic as Chandler
when he was
at his best.
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