James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice is a rural
setting as is his novel The Butterfly, Serenade moves from
the Mexican desert to LA and NYC, but much of the significant
actions takes place in Mexico.
Patrick King
--- Vince Emery <
vince@emery.com> wrote:
> Hammett's first Continental Op story, "Arson
Plus,"
> is rural, as is the
> comic western Op tale, "Corkscrew" and the
story
> "Two Sharp Knives" (which
> Hammett actually titled "To a Sharp Knife,"
after
> the saying, "To a sharp
> knife comes a tough steak").
>
> He wrote the first scene of an uncompleted
play
> called "The Good Meal" set
> in a farmhouse. The uncompleted
autobiographical
> chunk of his last attempt
> at a novel, "Tulip," is also rural. And so was
about
> a quarter of his novel
> "The Dain Curse."
>
> The novel "Velvet Vixen" by Australian author
K.T.
> McCall is mostly set in
> the middle of woods and farms in Canada.
>
> And remember Joe Gores, whose latest novel starts
in
> an African game
> preserve, then bounces back and forth between
rural
> woods and Washington
> D.C. His novel "Wolf Time" is mostly in the
woods,
> and his Edgar-winning
> short story "Goodbye, Pops" uses a rural setting
for
> effective dramatic
> effect.
>
> Vince Emery
>
> Vince Emery Productions
> Publisher:
> - LOST STORIES by Dashiell Hammett
> - DISCOVERING THE MALTESE FALCON AND
> SAM SPADE edited by Richard Layman
> - HAMMETT'S MORAL VISION
> by George J. "Rhino" Thompson
>
> www.emerybooks.com
> Box 460279, San Francisco, CA 94146 USA
>
vince@emery.com Phone
1.415.337.6000
>
>
>
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