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> Terrill Lankford wrote:
> > The great Hard Boiled novelist Stephen Hunter
has received a Pulitzer
> prize
> > for his film criticism, which runs in the
Washington Post. This is the
> first
> > time that award has been given to a film
journalist since 1975.
> >
> > Nice to see one of the Dirty White Boys make
good!
>
Miker wrote:
> That is good to hear. I haven't read any of his
articles on film but I've
> certainly
> enjoyed the two novels I've read by him. I know that
Swagger is a great
> hillbilly asskicker good guy, but maybe it's a sign
of my growing
addiction
> to
> noir that my favorite character so far has been THE
dirty white boy.
Hmm...
> sorry I can't remember his name. Is it Lamar? I
haven't forgotten his
> fight with
> the big badass inmate in the shower, or the great
Denny's robbery and
shoot
> out, or his homicidal lil honey. A fine piece of
fiction.
It is Lamar, and he's summed up brilliantly in the book's
opening sentence:
"Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises
than Lamar Pye, but all were black and therefore, by Lamar's
own figuring, hardly human at all."
Al
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