John & Carrie wrote:
> Does anyone consider Hunter S. Thompson as within
the hard boiled tradition?
> Someone recently maintained to me that he was, I
disputed it, but I'm not
> entirely sure. For one thing, his work is not
fiction (although that's open
> to question, isn't it?). Second, his potpourri of
drug-induced horros
> doesn't seem very hard-boiled to me.
His style is, at least in my opinion, hardboiled. But maybe
it's just that it falls under the Hemingway tradition of
daring newspapermen.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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