<<And nobody has rang in on whether Farrell's THE GIRL
EVERY- BODY KNEW, which came out in 1928, is hardboiled or
not.>>
I haven't read it or even seen it. I'm working my way through
Farrell's short stories. Tough stuff, with a *lot* of slang
from the old days. Roscoes and such. Sometimes this becomes
tedious, too noticeable, but there are stories where the
slang is the thing. Farrell may have been second-echelon to
Faulkner, Hemingway and a few others, but that's nothing to
be ashamed of. I will report when I finished the stories,
which will probably be a long time from now. He wrote a lot
of them.
Best,
MrT
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right
word is the difference between lightning and the lightning
bug." Mark Twain
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