>
> > 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.
I'd like to stick up for Falling Angel. Admittedly it was one
of the first contemporarily written noir novels I'd read but
I remember liking it a whole lot (though I've never got on
with anything else by Hjortsberg). The denouement is sort of
obvious but the mood got to me. I even quite liked the film -
though it definitely teeters on the edge of the dreadful -
but hey, that's Mickey Rourke for you.
John
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