I agree. I'm not big on poetry and I've even found some of his verse to be enjoyable.
-Gonzalo.
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> Many thanks, Gonzalo, but I have that one. Read the IPL reprint you mention when it came out.
> It's good stuff, if not in the same league as Glass Key. I wish Brand's non-western work (which pretty much spans the pulp spectrum from spy stories to lost race fantasy) was as easy to find as his westerns.
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> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: western vs noir, cowboy vs private eye
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
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> Try Brand's The Night Flower. There's a reprint from the late '80s with an introduction by William F. Nolan. I think he even compares it to Hammett's The Glass Key.
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> --- In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com, "J.C. Hocking" <jchocking@ ..> wrote:
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> > I have a real trove of Max Brand. His stuff is often great-- rich, mythic and surprisingly emotional.
> > But I haven't read much of it I would classify as hardboiled either in tone or style.
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> > > I'd recommend "The Ox-Bow Incident" by Walter Van Tillburg Clark as a great Cowboy noir. Published in 1940 as an intentional deconstruction of the Western (as in Cowboy) novel.
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