>From BOOK LUST (2003) by Nancy Pearl, one of those
"best books" or "what
to read next if you liked ___" books:
| I couldn't sleep for days after I read William Hjortsberg's
FALLING
| ANGEL, which I'd been lured (by an unscrupulous friend)
into thinking
| was a aymond Chandleresque private-eye novel. It isn't. It
might
| share all the conventions of the hardboiled mystery genre,
but the
| plot--the search for a missing singer in 1950s New York--is
animated by
| supernatural evil, and the denouement is stunning and
disturbing.
The title's been mentioned on the list, but never with a
review. It came out in 1978, and was made into the movie
ANGEL HEART (which I avoided) in the late eighties. Is it as
good as Pearl says? I see that No Exit has it in print.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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