Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-Boiled Women Authors and Genre Boundaries

Tom Olson (guiness@wizard.com)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:30:09 -0700 How about Flannery O'Connor? Not crime fiction in terms of genre, but
tough:

Without his glasses, The Misfit's eyes were red-rimmed and pale and
defenseless looking. "Take her off and thow her where you thown the others,"
he said, picking up the cat that was rubbing itself against his leg.
"She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch
with a yodel.
"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been
somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
"Some fun!" Bobby Lee said.
"Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life."

--"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

Now there's a nice Catholic girl.

AMDG,

Tom Olson

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