> I finally found and read a copy of The Living And
The
> Dead (D'entre les morts) by Pierre Boileau and
Thomas
> Narcejac. It was the basis -- as much as any book
can
> be a basis -- for Hitchcock's Vertigo. Much,
much
> darker than the film. Almost . . . well, you
know.
> Still doesn't change my take on the film but it's
a
> very interesting and very French novel.
This one's been in my TBR pile for years. I'll have to move
it closer to the top.
Right now I'm reading the David Dodge novel that Charles
discovered, The Last Match, and, so far, I'm loving it.
Sounds like David Dodge was quite the adventurer. It was a
perfect segue from the two Sid Fleischman books, Look Behind
You, Lady and The Venetian Blonde. I have yet to read a Stark
House reprint that wasn't great. You guys pick winners to
reprint every time.
Look Behind You Lady is set in Macao after the war and is
pretty typical of the Gold Medal espionage thrillers of that
time. Lots of twists and turns. The Venetian Blonde is set in
Venice, CA in 1963 and the whole murder and mayhem among the
beatniks reminded a lot of David Markson's Epitaph books,
especially in that the main characters in both have a
thinly-veiled contempt for them. Both were great reads.
Jeff
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