Review: 'The Twenty-Year Death'

[Night Editor]

"Noir is, first and foremost, style. It's like kabuki, or, more to the point, the blues — a folk art defined by its conventions, by a sensibility and a form. The best noir is pointed, not so much about plot as it is about voice."

Read on:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,5501653.story

[Steve-O]

What's this? Cloud Atlas for noir-heads??

I like the idea and bought a copy on my Nook last night... good tip! Nice to see Hard Case Crime get good press too.

[dlhartzog]

I'm reading this now and think its terrific. Guy must know his noir.

[spress]

I'm about to start it. It's so long I'm worried it will take 20 years to read.