RARA-AVIS: Re: Automotive Noir

From: Roy (chiun9@aol.com)
Date: 16 Jul 2010

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    --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Kent Morgan" <tkmorgan@...> wrote:
    >
    > This is getting scary. Yesterday I mentioned bringing in The Keys to Tulsa
    > with a car on the cover from my garage. Today in a message I just read
    > Kevin mentions Elmore Leonard's 52 Pick-up as having a possible automotive
    > connection. That book also came in from the garage and is sitting on top of
    > Keys just to my right. The next message from Karin mentioned 92 Cadillacs
    > by Joe Gores and then Ed asked about Car by Harry Crews. Perhaps you won't
    > believe this, but I just came up from my basement where those books were in
    > two different piles that I had to move to find something else. Car is about
    > a man who is going to eat a new Ford Maverick half an ounce a day from
    > bumper to bumper on national TV.
    >
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    > By the way, I'm not even close to being a car fanatic. As for Felsen's Hot
    > Rod that Kevin and John mentioned, I saw it last weekend on the top of a
    > shelf at our cottage on Lake Winnipeg. Think I'll go for a drive.
    >
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    >
    > Kent Morgan
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    52 Pick-up is my favorite Elmore Leonard novel. Now that it has been rescued from your garage it would be a crime not to read it. 32 Cadillacs is a solid comic crime novel. Haven't read the others you mention.



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