> Todd Mason wrote:
>
> Is "Enter Scarface" an excerpt from the novel? I
don't have
> my copy at hand to check.
>
> **********
> I'm not sure, Todd. I don't recall seeing any
reference to
> it being an excerpt in MAMMOTH BOOK OF PULP FICTION,
and I
> don't have the novel so I can't compare the
two.
>
> The story ended with no conclusion at all, so I
wouldn't be
> surprised if it was pulled straight from the book. I
just
> ordered BRAIN GUY and SCARFACE from Abebooks, so
I'll know
> for sure in a couple weeks.
>
> miker
> --
Yes, miker & Todd, "Enter Scarface" is an excerpt from
Scarface the novel. Scarface was re-issued earlier in the
Xanadu/Blue Murder series that was also edited by Maxim
Jakubowski. (Speaking personally, I hate excerpts from novels
being used in anthologies - but due to both lines of Blue
Murder reprints & the two "Pulp" anthologies he edited I
have magnanimously forgiven M. Jakubowski). It's been a few
years since I read Scarface, Al, but I'm not sure that it
quite lives up to its rep. From memory, I think I much
preferred Little Caesar by W R Burnett. I haven't read Brain
Guy but I have read another gangster novel by Appel, titled
something like Life and Death of a Tough Guy, I think. That
was OK, if memory serves but I think Brain Guy is supposed to
be his best. My favourite writer of gangster tomes, as some
may remember, is Peter Rabe, from a later era (the 50's) who
wrote about the later style of gangster, the organisation
man, basically a businessman who controls various lucrative
legal, semi-legal and illegal entertainment
businesses.Perhaps the earliest of these style gangster
stories is Hammett's The Glass Key.
Rene
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