Brian Evankovich wrote:
FAST ONE is a tough read. You're better off trying Cain's
other book, SEVEN SLAYERS, which, since it's a set of short
stories, is easier to digest. I've read Fast One three times
- the first time, I could barely figure out what was going on
or follow the writing because it's so choppy. But now it's
one of my favorites and I'm a huge Cain fan.
************* FAST ONE weighed in at an interesting time in
hardboiled history. Gangster stories had preceded it, but
they were almost all told from the good guy's point of view.
FAST ONE was one of the earlier hardboiled novels to approach
the subject from the crook's point of view. Others that come
to mind are LITTLE CAESAR and SCARFACE. I haven't read
SCARFACE yet, but I loved the movie. LITTLE CAESAR
sucked.
Influenced by the pessimistic determinism of American
Naturalism, these hardboiled stories told from the crook's
point of view marked the origin of noir.
miker
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