kip.stratton@natinst.com
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:27:16 -0500
Charles Bowden is an excellent writer; I'd recommend BLOOD
ORCHID, for what it is (although I don't see how I could
stretch it to be included as a noir title of any sort).
Bowden, who lives in Tucson, has written about a dozen
nonfiction books of different sorts, but I particularly like
his work on the U.S./Mexico border and his essays on drug
trafficking. He used to write a lot for GQ, but a year or so
ago he moved over to ESQUIRE. Again, I think he's one of the
best prose stylists out there right now.
Later...Kip
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(Mark Sullivan) on 06/30/99 05:13:45 PM
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I like Robert Stone quite a bit (I'm also a couple behind on
him, never could get into boat stories), but I've never
really thought of him as noir. However, I can see how the
argument could be made, although I would probably choose Dog
Soldiers (drug deal gone wrong) or A Hall of Mirrors
(assassination) before Children of the Light, also. I guess
Bowman was addressing the feeling of gloom and doom that
hangs over that book, or he just has something about Mexico
as a setting.
But my real question is, has anyone read the Charles Bowden
book, Blood Orchid, or the peripherally mentioned Chimney
Rock by Charlie Smith? Are they any good? I don't know these
two.
Mark
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