Ed Lynskey wrote: Did the 1950s readers just want to put WW2
behind them, and authors didn't dwell on war events?
********* In the big picture this is sort of a recurring
theme here, isn't it? I'm talking about hardboiled literature
seemingly ignoring (or at least not dwelling on) contem-
porary traumatic historical occurences. Although a lot of
noir revelled in the Great Depression, I think at least one
rara-avis member (Bill Denton?) noted that a significant
amount of hardboiled from the period avoided the topic, and
probably because a big reason for reading it was
escapist-oriented.
miker
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