Saturday, March 08, 2014

Second-hand landscape …

… Benjamin Black's 'Black-Eyed Blonde' offers soft-boiled Chandler - latimes.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



Black is the pseudonym of Man Booker-winning author John Banville, who since 2007 has published a series of crime novels that take place in Dublin, where he lives. As he admits in the acknowledgments, Southern California is a less familiar territory, and one it appears he had no particular inclination to learn.

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