In a message dated 3/27/03 4:04:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<<
In the 1930s, were there any other writers that wrote
hardboiled
Proletariat novels besides Dos Passos and Steinbeck?
Hemingway's
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT might qualify. Anderson's THIEVES
LIKE US
has an occasional Socialist slant. Others?
Thank you, miker >>
What about THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY by Horace McCoy? I
think it qualifies. B. Traven's work is proletariat but much
of it I would not call hardboiled although he's damn good. I
have not read Jim Thompson's first novel NOW AND ON EARTH
which came out in 1942 but it is a very grim account of a
writer who is a member of the communist party having to work
in an airplane factory. McCauley in his bio says this
character is the forerunner of Lou Ford, Nick Corey and other
Thompson characters.
Richard Moore
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