It focuses in general on tough-guy writers (c. l940) but in
particular
on California writers and novels of Hollywood, including
those by
Cain,McCoy, and Hans Otto Storm. It concludes with an
eloquent
postscript covering West and Fitzgerald's LAST TYCOON.
LITTLE SISTER had yet to be written, but Wilson's treatment
does
pre-figure another California writer, Ross Macdonald.
Jeff Evans
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