> But Dent call Sale "Sail" in those stories... Does
anyone know if Sale's
> novels (I believe there are only a few) were ever
reprinted? I vaguely
> recall reading one many years ago, but remember
nothing about it, not
> even whether it was good or not.
I've been looking for _Not too narrow, not too deep_, his
first novel
(1936), for quite a few years now, since I saw the 1940
adaptation
starring Clark Gable as a feverish messiah/escaping convict.
His
second novel, _Is a ship burning?_ was published in 1937, at
which time he
started to work in the movie industry : wrote more than 30
scripts,
directed about 10 in the '50s, and even composed a few
scores.
Another of his books that made it to the silver screen is
_The white
buffalo_ (1975), a Moby Dickish take on Wild Bill
Hickock.
I've only read his _Lazarus #7_ (1942), and one short story
(he's
credited with more than 350...). Lazarus is a fun read about
Hollywood . I
notice he wrote other novels set in this setting (_Passing
strange_, _The
oscar_).
Laurent
____
"When you're slapped, you'll take and like it"
Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon,
from Hardboiled by P. Thompson & S. Usukawa.
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