David Moran wrote: Like most inner-city crime books that
become popular, I found it rather poorly written, even from
the standpoint of a literary amateur (cf. Jack Black's
"You Can't Win"), and annoyingly obsessed with justifying a
violent and fairly useless life.
************* And the ubiquitous "criminal as victim" theme.
Richard Wright's NATIVE SON is probably an apex for that
theme, but Wright's prose is of a lot higher caliber than
most.
I found DEAD I MAY WELL BE in the pile of mail we accumulated
after a long weekend at the lake. I'm looking forward to
reading it.
miker
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