I've just finished reading Daniel Judson's POISONED ROSE,
which has to be about the noirest book I've ever read. Again
and again, I the reader had a flicker of hope that the
(relatively) good guys would find a way out of their
desperate circumstances, and every time those hopes were
crushed, by the corrupt chief of police and his flunkies,
duplicitous employers, manipulative oligarchs, and the
shadows of horrible childhoods. And all of this on Long
Island, not the prototypical location for neon signs
illuminating dark walkups.
Has anyone else read this? I'd like
to know if my impression of noir is the generally accepted
one. (I think the book is also HB.)
Joy
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