Re: RARA-AVIS: Dorothy B. Hughes, Anyone?

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• From: "Richard L. King" <rlking@marsh.vinu.edu>
• Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 08:24:57 -0500
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michael david sharp wrote:

> I'm teaching a course called "From Pulp to Paperback: American Crime
> Fiction 1920-60" next Winter, and I thought RTPH might be one of the
> novels I teach, though I wonder whether it might be too complex or
> disturbing for your average Michigan sophomore.  Anyway, it's a wonderful
> novel, and it's great to read someone whose books don't seem to be carbon
> copies of one another.

I agree, Michael. So many books just seem to to be like one another.
RIDE THE PINK HORSE would be a good one for your students, though I
haven't finished it quite yet. You could discuss the attitudes of the
Big City mobsters vs. the slower lifestyles of the people in the small
town, the racial elements. Wish I could take that class from you.

Richard King
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