Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep by Richard Sale -- an incredible
work of American literature that defines genre
classification. It was published in 1936. It is worth
mentioning.
It has a truly memorable opening paragraph:
Nine out of ten of those coast fishermen who put in at St.
Pierre and offer escape are rascals. I remember the horror I
felt when I first learned that they trafficked in other men's
misery. They'd offer their boat for your escape. When you got
on it and put out to sea they'd stab you in the back; and
when you were dead they'd disembowel you, cut out the metal
capsule with your precious money, and throw your body
overboard where the sharks and the barracuda made short work
of it. You have to hide your money in your body, you see,
because that is the only safe place you have.
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