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Ross, James They Don't Dance Much
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1940 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dj Illustrated by (dj) George Kelley
[a moderately worn copy, with bumped bottom corners, light foxing/soiling to the endpapers; the jacket is edgeworn, with short tears at a couple of corners, a small chip and some associated wrinkling at top of front panel, slight fading/yellowing to spine, a bit of paper loss at the top of the spine (no text affected), some soiling to rear panel]. Hard-boiled post-Depression novel (the author's first and last) about a penniless young North Carolina farmer who loses his land for non-payment of taxes, and is forced to take a job working for a former schoolmate -- the colorfully named Smut Mulligan -- who operates a rough-and-tumble roadhouse near the state line with South Carolina. Rather too much has probably been made of Raymond Chandler's admiration for the book (in what is probably his sole recorded comment, in a 1954 letter to his British publisher, he called it "a sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story"); on the other hand, he did also admit to having read the book "several times," and that's not exactly nothin'. George V. Higgins was another admirer; in his afterword to its 1975 reissue, he propped Hammett up beside Chandler in declaring Ross "bolder than either of them" in terms of both language and character. There's more than a whiff of James M. Cain in the Carolina air, too (Cain's opinion of the book, if any, seems to be unrecorded), with Higgins describing Ross's Tarheel lowlifes as "very hard characters, lean, mean, and reeking of purposive, corrupt, amorality."
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