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'Before Pelecanos, Connelly, and Lehane, there was Crumley and, with
The Right Madness, he shows us once again how he put the
"hard" in "hard-boiled."
'... it's starting to sound a bit too familiar, but there's
something about C. W.'s unrepentant thirst (both for booze and
vengeance) and his willful foolishness, his absolute inability to do
the sensible thing, that makes him stand out in a genre on the verge
of being taken over by reformed drunks and socially responsible
adults. This is character-driven fiction for those who want no part
of designated drivers.' - Booklist
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Novelist James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, on October 12, 1939 and spent most of his childhood in south Texas. After graduation he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on a Navy ROTC scholarship, but soon left to enlist in the U.S. Army, where he served from 1958 to 1961. Crumley then returned to Texas and enrolled at Texas A&I (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville), where he had received a football scholarship. Crumley completed his BA in History in 1964, and was accepted into the University of Iowa’s prestigious creative writing program, where he earned a MFA in 1966. Immediately after graduating he joined the English faculty the University of Montana at Missoula. His thesis was eventually published as the novel, One to Count Cadence, in 1969, a ...
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