(I never mind!) And I haven't to my recollection. I overdosed on Stout and had to read lots of Diana Wynne Jones for awhile and then school started, and all smiles stopped. I shall request it from the library forthwith, and see if I am offended or inoffended.
And yeah, damning with faint praise as it may be, I think for a heterosexual white American dude writing in 1937--and a couple of decades before and a few after, with a lot of non-writing-related toil towards financial stability prior to the prime writing years--he does pretty well. I'm far too fond of him to ever really be upset by the cheery little racial and sexual-role pitfalls I stumble across in his works.
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And yeah, damning with faint praise as it may be, I think for a heterosexual white American dude writing in 1937--and a couple of decades before and a few after, with a lot of non-writing-related toil towards financial stability prior to the prime writing years--he does pretty well. I'm far too fond of him to ever really be upset by the cheery little racial and sexual-role pitfalls I stumble across in his works.