Title: New Noir: Flawed Femme Fatale
Product review: Elmore Leonard takes the basics of a book noir and twists them around, using a machete and trick photography to fool his live-in lover in his novel, PAGAN BABIES.Most femme fatales have an ax to grind: a husband who needs killing, a fortune to gain, and some wild sex on the kitchen table to garner.Debbie Dewey has these needs, and she has the willpower to carry them out. All she needs is some dumb guy to fulfill her wishes. In Terry Dunn she thinks she has her intellectually challenged male. Problem is: she's wrong. Terry's not stupid.Her final plight is a real joy to us men who have watched our species canniballized in movies like BODY HEAT. What fun it is to see the tables turned on a fairly smart woman. What joy it is to see the "dumb guy" win.Thank you, Elmore Leonard!
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