RARA-AVIS: Haywood's _It's Not A Pretty Sight_
Roger Dowdy (rdowdy@sprintmail.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:00:50 -0700
Just finished _It's Not A Pretty Sight_ and although I found it
generally
entertaining there were parts that rubbed me the wrong way.
Specifically,
I've got a thing about hardboileds that preach and/or moralize
a "life
lesson". I don't read hardboiled fiction to be instructed on
the perils
of child abuse, domestic violence or any other social ill. As
an
emergency room social worker in our local county hospital I am
well aware
of the devastation these things cause. Admittedly, as a result
I may be
overly sensitive to the moralistic tendancies within the genre.
Maybe this opens up a larger question for discussion. What
are people's
thoughts regarding these moralistic "life lessons" some
authors place in
their writings?
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