Re: RARA-AVIS: Postman Always Rings Twice

fwillard@mindspring.com
Fri, 04 Sep 98 13:49:33 -0400 In <35EF6527.7929@sprintmail.com>, on 09/03/98
at 10:57 PM, MT <matrxtech@sprintmail.com> said:
>What I most admire in Cain is his ability to compress
>the action of a story and move it forward relentlessly (but the reader
>doesn't feel choked)

>Mario Taboada

You don't have to look any further than the first sentence of _The Postman
Always Rings Twice_ to see an example.

"They threw me off the hay truck about noon."

We are already in the middle of the action, and have an good idea about
the protagonist and the location in those nine plain words.

Fred

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