I'm a third of the way thru this month's book, PIMP and
planning on plowing my way
through over the next couple of days. Is it the language or
the content that
qualifies this book as hardboiled? Or both? I've read a
number of books by people
who were at one point street kids or suffered at the hands of
abusive parents in
bleak circumstances; HARD CITY and ROCK AND A HARD PLACE come
to mind. I didn't
think of those books as hardboiled. Likewise, I think there's
a lot of heart in PIMP
underneath all the jingo. I've still got a ways to go in
completing this book, but
I'm curious about what it is in this book that categorizes it
as hardboiled.
Sandra Hess
San Francisco
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