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They Don't Dance Much (Lost American Fiction)
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They Don't Dance Much (Lost American Fiction) Hardcover - 1975

by Ross, James


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Called by Raymond Chandler a sleazy, corrupt but completely believable story of a North Carolina town, this tough, realistic novel exemplifies Depression literature in the United States.Falling somewhere between the hard-as-nails writing of James M. Cain and the early stories of Ernest Hemingway, James Ross s novel was for sheer brutality and frankness of language considerably ahead of his reading public s taste for realism untinged with sentiment or profundity. In his brilliant Afterword to this new edition, George V. Higgins, author of the recent best-seller "Cogan s Trade," " "pays tribute to Ross for his courage in telling his story truthfully, in all its ugliness.The setting of "They Don" "t Dance Much "is a roadhouse on the outskirts of a North Carolina town on the border with South Carolina, complete with dance floor, restaurant, gambling room, and cabins rented by the hour. In the events described, Smut Milligan, the proprietor, seeks money to keep operating and commits a brutal murder."

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  • Title They Don't Dance Much (Lost American Fiction)
  • Author Ross, James
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition th
  • Pages 304
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
  • Date 1975
  • ISBN 9780809307142

About the author

James Ross s only novel was written late in 1939 and published in 1940. He is at present editorial writer for the "Greensboro Daily News," " "Greensboro, North Carolina. In a statement written for this edition, he notes that the roadhouses have long since disappeared, but human greed and the evils it generates haven t. His aim in writing the novel, he states, merely was to show it the way it was. "
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