Not to mention all of Joe Gore's DKA novels. Very
tongue-in-cheek stuff!
Best, Harry
Quoting Dick Lochte <
dlochte@gmail.com>:
> Richard Moore wrote: On the other hand, I do believe
a novel can be both
> hardboiled and
> funny.
>
> Just today I began reading a very funny novel I
learned about
> through Keith Roberts' memoir (of sorts) LEMADY. The
book is DON'T
> POINT THAT THING AT ME by Kyril Bonfiglioli and it
manages to be
> both tough and very, very funny.
>
> --------
>
> Let me suggest (and recommend) another: City of Tiny
Lights by Patrick
> Neate. Some of the dialogue and narrator
observations are hilarious. But the
> plot -- involving politics, racism, crime and
international terrorism
> paranoia -- is properly dark.
>
> Dick Lochte
>
>
>
>
Dr. Harry Lerner Department of Anthropology University of
Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada
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