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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich2@...> wrote:
> Certainly realism is a literary method, or what
various critics
> label "realism" in the various eras. It's been quite
a few years
> since I read Ellin's novel, and my memory may be
faded a bit, but I
> certainly don't recall it as a novel of "realism"
even in those pre-
> Wambaugh days of 1958.
>
What little I've read *about* THE EIGHTH CIRCLE was all about
how Ellin strove to "get it right" with months of research
with PI firms of the day and a striving for authenticity and
the like. And certainly the book has the "feel" of a
"realistic" novel, a deliberate stab at doing something
different than the Chandler-myth. The PI here is quite
sucessful and the firm very large, for instance.
It's not a bad book by any means, just rather less good than
I hoped it'd be.
doug
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