Mark Sullivan, about Tim Willocks:
> > the inside review page I found this quote from
the Glasgow
> > Herald:
> > "Until this man put pen to paper, Raymond
Chandler was
> > probably the only English writer with the
talent, the
> > wherewithal and the sheer bottle to write a
convincing
> > hard-boiled contemporary crime
novel."
Juri:
> This is pure nonsense. Chandler was born in the US,
raised in England,
> but lived and wrote his books in the US.
Even if we leave Chandler's Britishness aside, it's nonsense
simply because there certainly have been many very fine
British HB novels before Willocks came along -- as anyone
here ought to know. It's surprising that something like this
was printed in a Scottish paper, considering writers like
Rankin and McIlvanney.
Btw, does all this mean I can now claim Donald Hamilton,
Nelson Algren and Day Keene (Gunnar Hjertstedt) as Swedish
writers? :)
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