RARA-AVIS: Re: Macdonald, Gatsby, etc.

From: James R. Winter ( winter_writes@earthlink.net)
Date: 30 Nov 2004


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Coggins" <coggins@i...> wrote:

<<<Who did Macdonald influence--or who writes in his tradition?>>>

George Pelecanos. He writes the most despicable characters, and yet you understand exactly why they are the way they are.

But there's a heavy dose of Chandler in there, too. Strange and Quinn are not men who are themselves mean.

Jim Winter

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