Joyce Carol Oates is not only arguably hb, but usually her
work is criminous, albeit the aftermath of the crime rather
than the crime itself is the focus of most of the fiction
I've read from her. Cerebral may be one way of putting it;
like Kate Wilhelm, often she takes a seemingly dispassionate
view of extremely upsetting matters, so as to engage the
reader thus rather than in the more usual direct emotional
appeal of hb. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Robison Michael R CNIN
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Robison_M@crane.navy.mil] i'll have to give dunne,
didian, and oates a try. my memory is foggy, but i thought i
read oates before and thought she was a bit too cerebral for
me. i better have another look.
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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.
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