Thanks to the recommendations of Etienne Borgers and Steve,
le Montois de Detroit, I read Piano barjo by Tito Topin and
thoroughly enjoyed it.
As a result, I'd be interested in hearing about books that
would include the kind of slang (including ethnic slurs) used
by American navy men stationed in North Africa in the late
fifties and early sixties. If you have any ideas, and they
are not hb or noir, please write me off-list.
Thanks.
Karin
At 06:45 PM 20/04/2006 -0400, Mark Sullivan wrote:
>Etienne has offered lists of French noir/hardboiled
writers worth
>reading. Unfortunately, few have been translated and
what little I
>learned in high school French is long gone. However,
I jotted down the
>names and have kept them in mind. I enjoyed the few I
read by Malet
>(wish I could find more, but the Pan editions have
gotten expensive).
>The two translated Manchettes blew me away. Izzo was
also quite
>impressive. I haven't gotten around to the couple I
picked up by
>Pennac, but I'm looking forward to them.
>
>Anyway, while looking for something else, I stumbled
across the news
>that Semiotext(e) has published Babylon Babies by
Maurice Dantec. It
>looks more sci-fi than crime, but both the words
hardboiled and noir are
>used in the description. Has anyone read it? How is
it?
>
>There's also a link to an interview with Dantec at
the site:
>www.semiotexte.com/authors/dantec.html
>
>Mark
>
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