Joy Matkowski wrote:
> 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.)
************ I haven't read it, but your plot description
about the protagonists' struggle to escape their impending
doom sounds like a typical noir scenario. The author keeps
the light shining ever so dimly at the end of the tunnel
until the inevitable end.
Based on THE BLACK DAHLIA and THE BIG HEAT, I've decided that
noir does not absolutely require crushing defeat in the end
for the protagonist.
miker
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