Mark Blumenthal (blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:29:54 -0500
I read A Drink Before the War, and Darkness, Take my Hand is
in my tbr pile. I thought the former unpolished but powerful.
For the most part the the book has the right feel. As Lehane
says in the interview his picture of the Dorchester section
of Boston is as it was, not the way it is now. Gentrification
and some loss of ethnic identity have changed it.
Is Angela Gennaro a hardboiled detective? I would say
she is, but I'm upset at Angie meekly allowing her husband to
beat her until she stops him at the end of the book.
Here's a question for the authors on this list. Is there a
reason other than infringinging upon copyrights that the
Boston newspapers are called the Trib and the News instead of
naming them correctly the Globe and Herald? As a native
Bostonian this jars me that a book that tries to create an
authentic atmosphere does this. Mark Blumenthal
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