John & Carrie (johncarrie@sprynet.com)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:02:30 -0500
On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 at 02:08 James Rogers sent: Re:
RARA-AVIS: Sensitive detectives
> You're kidding. You don't consider James
Cain
>or Horace McCoy hardboiled?
Well, of course Cain is hardboiled. Probably didn't think to
mention him because his influence on the style is so
pervasive, so big that he kind of goes <with>out
saying. Not familar with Horace McCoy, though.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
----- Horace McCoy wrote the incandescent They Shoot Horses,
Don't They? He also wrote I Should Have Gone Home, which I
found to be akin to a bad Nathaniel West. But he is one of
the greats just on the basis of They Shoot Horses...
Tribe
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