Re: RARA-AVIS: Tales of revenge [was Re: Two buck books]

From: Patrick King ( abrasax93@yahoo.com)
Date: 19 Oct 2007


For my money it's probably The Seige of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams.

Patrick King
--- jacquesdebierue < jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "rictusaporia"
> <rictusaporia@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I prefer the tigers & dogs to those
> who are presumptuous
> > enough to think that the simplistic machinic
> application of brutal
> > force to any symptomatic human expression of
> social ills is a thing
> > that can be morally justified (or called "human").
>
>
> OK, so what are the greatest hardboiled/noir tales
> of revenge ever
> written? Joe Gores wrote two very fine ones, _A Time
> for Predators_
> and _Dead Man_. Cape Fear is another one. There have
> got to be many
> more. Elmore Leonard?
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>

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