In a message dated 1/7/02 2:40:55 PM,
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net writes:
<< There are hard boiled books that don't have
detectives, such as most of Willeford or Jim Thompson works.
IMO, the late Earl Thompson's Garden of Sand is, or comes
pretty close. >>
IMO the Thompson books, and
particularly "A Garden Of Sand," are thoroughly hard-boiled,
in exactly the same way and for the same reasons that most of
John Gregory Dunne's work and much of Joan Didian's and Joyce
Carol Oates work are hard boiled. The worlds that they
create, the attitudes they strike and the truths they reveal
all come out of the best of the HB tradition. On top of that,
they are great reads.
Jim
Blue
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