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Book cover of Ride the Pink Horse, showing a pink merry-go-round horse

“And say your mea culpa, which you gradually forgot”

Ride the Pink Horse (1946) by Dorothy B. Hughes

October 28, 2023 by drmllz 4 Comments

Cannonball Read 15 Bingo Square “On the Road”: Three men have travelled from Chicago to Santa Fe in a complicated game of cat and mouse I think that Dorothy B. Hughes’s writing, at its best, possesses a terrible beauty, to borrow a phrase from W.B. Yeats’s “Easter, 1916.” Elsewhere, of course, Yeats wrote that “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, a fragment of a phrase that beats at the dark heart of noir fiction, where comforting myths of love, or integrity, or fairness implode […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square

drmllz's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classic noir, crime, criminal POV, Dorothy B. Hughes, drmllz, on the road square ·
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