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A review by beanpod
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s by Charles Willeford, Robert Polito, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes
4.0
I only read The Killer Inside Me and The Real Cool Killers, the former because the movie coming out got me interested and the latter because I read about the author, Chester Himes and his history and the recurring characters Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed interested me.
The Killer Inside Me was well written and worth reading. I loved The Real Cool Killers. The writing was perfectly spare. Himes once wrote that "realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference." The blurring of the two is played out in this short novella.
The Killer Inside Me was well written and worth reading. I loved The Real Cool Killers. The writing was perfectly spare. Himes once wrote that "realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference." The blurring of the two is played out in this short novella.