I completely agree with Al's praise of Gerald Kersh. I had
the good fortune to have a used book store clerk steer me to
Kersh around 1961 or so--Night and the City, Prelude to a
Certain Midnight and two short story collections. What a
great discovery. Fred Brown was another writer willing to
experiment...twist the form and ignore the boundaries.
Anyone know the status of Paul Duncan's biography of
Kersh?
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie"
<allan@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Ed.
>
> Kersh is nothing short of stunning. Weird,
inventive, playful,
absurd and often over-the-top, but that's what I like. Hell
of an underappreciated and hugely diverse writer.
>
> Al
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward Pettit
> To:
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: early noir:
British
>
>
> The Nicholas Blake Treasury contains:
> Thou shell of death., Beast must die., Corpse in the
snowman.,
Question of proof., There's trouble brewing., Smiler with the
knife., Murder with malice., Minute for murder., Head of a
traveler.,
>
> I've just ordered a copy through my
library.
>
> And I just finished Kersh's Night and the City a
couple nights
ago. Fantastic with spots of bizarre, surreal writing.
Sometimes his style is so over the top to be funny. But
mostly it just grips you by the throat. What a treat.
>
> Ed
>
>
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> al_guthrie65 <allan@...> wrote:
> James Curtis THE GILT KID (1936)
>
> Didn't realise Nicholas Blake (Cecil Day Lews, by
the way, not C
S
> Lewis) had written a book based on THE REVENGER'S
TRAGEDY. Have
to
> get that.
>
> Al
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jay Gertzman
<jgertzma@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone add to these noirish titles by
British writers, c.
1930-
> 40?
> >
> > --James Hadley Chase, _No Orchids for Miss
Blandish_
> > --Gerald Kersh, _Night and the City_
> > --Francis Iles, _Before the Fact_
> > --Nicholas Blake (C S Lewis), _The Beast Must
Die_; _Thou
Shell of
> > Death_ (based on _The Revengers Tragedy_, a
Jacobean revenge
play)
> > --D H Lawrence, _The Lovely Lady_
(novella)
> > --Marie Belloc Lowndes, _The Lodger_ (1913);
_The Story of Ivy_
> >
>
> .
>
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