Word: badmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true, this powerful collection of three short novels deserves every bit of attention it can get. The title does, after all, describe the book perfectly; the three novellas are linked thematically by it. More precisely, it is the breaking of search and seizure laws. Elkin's heros are badmen, who justify their acts through mixed-up metaphysical rules reflecting all of the saturnalian immediacy of today's politics. At the same time, they express deeper strains of human nature which will ensure Elkin's place among the best of modern novelists...
MOVIES ABOUT country boys who come to the city to make it big used to be made about tycoons and entrepreneurs. The rise of rock as the most dynamic mass art form has passed the heroic mantle from businessmen and badmen to rock stars. And rock has accentuated a theme which has always been implicit in the hero as desperado: a morbid fascination with living life as quickly as possible, with life only in the present, and pain collapsed into conclusive drama...