I saw Vicki Hendricks joking about "screwed," after Jack
Bludis's definition of noir (the Jack Bludis Heresy, as we
call it), and it certainly fit with IGUANA LOVE (1999), which
is good, twisted, bleak modern noir. Ramona, the narrator,
heads pretty much straight downhill and into trouble from the
start. She gets mixed up with a bad man but can't stop
herself, and also gets mixed up with a few other guys, of
varying niceness and muscularity. She knows she's going to
hell but she doesn't want to stop.
The last time I read sex scenes like this has was last year,
in SHOOTERS by Mr. Lankford. I was on the subway when I read
a particularly raunchy interlude near the start, and thought,
"I'm glad no-one was looking over my shoulder at that." I
turned slightly, and, of course, there was a little old lady
standing there gaping at me in shock. I felt bad, but more
for not giving up my seat than for what she'd seen by reading
over my shoulder. You get what you pay for if you take your
literature that way. But back to IGUANA LOVE: on the subway
back and forth to work today no-one was standing behind me to
read the gym or pool scenes.
We were talking about gender inversion, and there's a lot of
that here. Vicki, could you tell us a bit about what's going
on with Ramona? On page three she sneaks away from her
husband and picks up a guy in a bar. By the end she's
practically turned into a man. In fact the more I think about
what she does, the more twisted and dark it all gets. There
was nothing like this in the old days, either in point of
view or language. I still feel a bit dirty.
Bill
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