In a message dated 5/27/00 8:21:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
marianne.macdonald@lineone.net writes:
<< Junkies aren't hard boiled (except maybe in fiction)
but,
like all the whores I've ever known, deeply damaged.
But this isn't
crime fiction; these are victims, not avengers. ( I'm
talking real life.) >>
Their whole lifestyle is against the
law, how can a story about a junkie or a prostitute not be
crime fiction? You could argue that they're more noir than
hardboiled, but I don't think you can say they're not
hardboiled. They're just not private detectives.
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