"Down here there are only winners and losers and do not have to end up on the wrong side of that line" it takes Atlantic City soundtrack, for these crimes Small dick , prosaic title but makes it perfectly the atmosphere of a world and a daily life that are always on the edge of illegality. At the beginning is never anything serious: some subterfuge, theft trivial, just enough tricks to make ends meet. Little stuff, which outlaws most stupid, but the spiral does not know where to break at some point you get even a robbery itself and you end up with a clumsy and cruel murder. The protagonist of this rapid and progressive descent into the underworld is worthy of James Cain Tommy Russo, a failure of the highest quality who dreams of becoming an actor but loses much of its time (and all his money) to bet on the wrong horse. Hence the urgent need for liquids (put it this way) that sets out, step by step, with detours to the wrong side of the road , to quote Tom Waits. In New York wet, muddy, very clean and very dark dashed by Jason Starr does not take much: just a word at the wrong time or a twist of fate and all, some more, some less, helping to push deeper and deeper Tommy Russo . Who lies, who is hiding something, who finds himself caught up, if only as a witness in his deeds: the whole range of humanity Little Murders cock seems to help create an atmosphere of ambiguity between winners and losers that intersects with the boundaries between order and lawlessness. The construction of the dialogue, always fragmentary and impetuous, has a far from secondary role because the characters of Little Murders cock , from Tommy Russo talk as they walk. When his girlfriend finds out that he has robbed, is justified thus: "I have a gambling addiction. I did not want to tell you, but it's true. I started betting when I was in high school and since then has been getting worse. I always go to the racecourse and in betting shops, to bet money on those fucking horses. I'm sorry not to have made the word, but I did not know how to deal with the issue. " If he has robbed, she lied, and I understand, no one is innocent and everyone has something to hide (sometimes even a corpse). With the pace of a real thriller, Little Murders cock reiterates that attitude that Jason Starr had already demonstrated cold calls (a book sure to be rediscovered ): writing noir and without any particular literary pretensions, but that does not allow anything to narrow models of genre fiction and, indeed, makes the most of them to redefine the worlds, characters and atmospheres in which the moral failure of the human race is just around the corner . Or just across the line drawn from Atlantic City song whose theme will be by chance or for some reason, largely coincides with the story of Tommy Russo, its Little Murders cock and a New York was never so innocent.
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