>I know there's been some mention of this topic, which
is why I was
interested when I ran across
>this blurb in the front of the first Pocket Book
printing of RED HARVEST
last night:
>
>"Dinah Brand is surely one of the most diverting
characters in
contemporary fiction." -- Carl Van
>Vechten
And when Dorothy Parker reviewed THE GLASS KEY, she said:
"And it is also true that [Hammett] is a good, hell-bent,
cold-hearted writer, with a clear eye for the ways of hard
women. . . ." Surely she had Dinah Brand, among others, in
mind when she wrote this. (She also said that he was rotten
at writing about upper-class women, but that you couldn't
have everything.)
And yeah, I know Hammett was no fan of Parker as a human
being. But I think she was nearly always dead on in her book
reviews.
Later, Vicky
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