Ron Clinton
> Speaking of remarkable novels, I just finished a
novel that was firmly in
> the Starr tradition -- a down-and-out protagonist
entrenched in
> circumstances spiraling out of control and, as in
some of Starr's works, a
> liberal dose of humour thrown in for good
measure...in this case, enough
to
> label this one on the satirical side of noir.
Fully-fleshed characters,
> thrilling narrative, clean & terse prose. SINCE
THE LAYOFFS by Iain
> Levinson. One of the best crime/noir books I've read
for quite some
> time...hmm, maybe since Starr's last one. If you
like Starr -- or hitman
> novels -- you'll like this one.
>
> Here's a review I found of it:
> http://www.noirnovels.com/review.php?review=16
********** Thanks for the recommendation, Ron. Found it brand
new at Amazon. I've been trying to keep most of my reading in
the pre-1980 stuff, but I don't have a lot of
self-discipline. The majority of my reading is post-1980, so
reading in the past is just an attempt to fill in some
gaps.
I'm reading another on Mark Sullivan's short list of avant
garde detective novels, Lethem's MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN. So far
it's pure gold. I got that GLASS CITY or whatever it's called
coming, too. WAHOOO!
miker
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