On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Anders Engwall (ERA) wrote:
> Now, TASTE OF ASHES is something else. If
Browne's
> reputation should rest on one single novel, this
is
> it.
This is the only Browne novel I've read so far, but I think
it's one of the best private eye novels around. The amount of
sadness, bitterness and disappointmen is huge in the book.
Someone might say that this is a sadder book than anything
Chandler ever wrote. In the same time, it's highly
entertaining and moving. "A Taste of Ashes" is a great
novel.
> Is the correct title *A* TASTE OF ASHES or *THE*
TASTE
> OF ASHES? I've seen the book referred to in both
ways.
I'd say "A Taste of Ashes".
A question on Browne: he wrote the screenplay for the Roger
Corman film
"St. Valentine's Day Massacre" from 1967. There's a Dell
paperback novelization of the film. It's bylined as Boris
O'Hara. Now, don't you think that Boris O'Hara is Browne's
pseudonym? The same letters - B and H - in both names and
"Hara" sounds a bit like "Howard". Boris O'Hara has no other
books to his name. And the name sounds phony. So if only for
these shaky arguments, I'd say that "St. Valentine's Day
Massacre" is part of the Browne canon.
Juri
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