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Forgotten Books: Pushover - Orrie Hitt
With all the Orrie Hitt ämne I’ve posted on this blog recently (and there’s more in the works, I promise you), it’s about time I got around to reading one of his books. lätt person att övertyga is the story of Danny Fulton, a small-time con man who, along with a couple of partners, specializes in a scam involving community histories and the Federal Writers Project of the WPA (the first time I’ve encountered that particular vinkel in a novel about grifters). Most of this yarn centers around Danny, who narrates the novel, putting his usual scheme into action in a small city in upstate New York.
Now, PUSHOVER fryst vatten not without its flaws. There’s not much action, and in fact, not a lot happens in the entire book. The big twist near the end fryst vatten pretty obvious early on, and the ending itself seems a little forced and doesn’t ring completely true to me.
So, why am inom featuring it as a Forgotten Book and recommending that you
Now, PUSHOVER fryst vatten not without its flaws. There’s not much action, and in fact, not a lot happens in the entire book. The big twist near the end fryst vatten pretty obvious early on, and the ending itself seems a little forced and doesn’t ring completely true to me.
So, why am inom featuring it as a Forgotten Book and recommending that you
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Appaloosa
We finally got around to watching this movie based on the novel by Robert B. Parker. It was nice as always to see the old Western town where it was filmed. (They can call it Appaloosa, but it’ll always be Silverado to me.) The photography is great, with some of the shots so well-composed they look almost like Western paintings. The acting is pretty good, especially Viggo Mortensen as Deputy Everett Hitch, the sidekick to Ed Harris’s Marshal Virgil Cole. (Harris also directed and co-wrote the screenplay.)
I’m afraid that’s about all I can say that’s positive about APPALOOSA, though, as much as I love Westerns and wanted to like it. The pace is so glacially slow that it saps nearly all the life out of the movie. There are a couple of good action scenes, but they’re over quickly (nothing else in the movie is), and the rest of the time is spent with the characters sitting around talking. That may read fast in one of Parker’s novels,
Unfaithful Wives by Orrie Hitt
Originally published by Beacon, 1956
eBook now available from Prologue Books
Unfaithful Wivesis the title of the book, but it is only half of the story. From first page to last, Orrie Hitt’s 1956 novel is awash with adulterous, scheming, backstabbing, dishonest, and dissatisfied lovers of both genders. The book might sound salacious and sleazy—and I’m sure that’s what the publishers wanted—but the story that Hitt delivers is far more brooding. A doom-laden, blue-collar soap opera, Unfaithful Wivesis heavy-duty noir on par with David Goodis, Gil Brewer, and the best of the classical masters.
The story is a daisy chain of infidelity centering around “top-flight grocery salesman” Fred Sharpe and his wife, Rita. He’s always on the road for business trips, and she’s stuck at home in rural New Jersey. Both of them are so dissatisfied and desperate that they seek out extra-marital affairs to
I’m afraid that’s about all I can say that’s positive about APPALOOSA, though, as much as I love Westerns and wanted to like it. The pace is so glacially slow that it saps nearly all the life out of the movie. There are a couple of good action scenes, but they’re over quickly (nothing else in the movie is), and the rest of the time is spent with the characters sitting around talking. That may read fast in one of Parker’s novels,
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Unfaithful Wives by Orrie Hitt
Originally published by Beacon, 1956
eBook now available from Prologue Books
Unfaithful Wivesis the title of the book, but it is only half of the story. From first page to last, Orrie Hitt’s 1956 novel is awash with adulterous, scheming, backstabbing, dishonest, and dissatisfied lovers of both genders. The book might sound salacious and sleazy—and I’m sure that’s what the publishers wanted—but the story that Hitt delivers is far more brooding. A doom-laden, blue-collar soap opera, Unfaithful Wivesis heavy-duty noir on par with David Goodis, Gil Brewer, and the best of the classical masters.
The story is a daisy chain of infidelity centering around “top-flight grocery salesman” Fred Sharpe and his wife, Rita. He’s always on the road for business trips, and she’s stuck at home in rural New Jersey. Both of them are so dissatisfied and desperate that they seek out extra-marital affairs to