SLSL "Swamp Wench"

[Paul Mackin]

Dave Monroe wrote:

>"The swamp book is a little known American literary
>genre which flourished in the forties to mid fifties.
>Sadly, interest in swamp literature has faded and the
>swamp novel has been lost to the mists of history.
>Here are a few surviving examples."
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>http://personal.smartt.com/~rubik/swamp/
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>E.g. ...
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>Sylla was young in years. But what she had stacked
>into those tender years was there for all to see--
>the ripe fullness of the breasts that strained against
>the faded shirt-- the skin tight jeans that clung to
>her firm young thighs-- the tempting deliberateness
>of her walk.
>
>She spread desire like a fever among the rough,
>reckless, hard drinking fishermen of the Florida
>Keys.
>
>They couldn't keep their eyes off her--or their
>hands--And it drove one man to murder!
>
Sounds like swamp writing might have inspired Mickey Spillane. He was 
contemporaneous with the genre. First novel in about '47 (from memory) 
was _I The Jury_. Pretty sure it had some kind of swamp wench in it.

"That Mickey Spillane really can write."

--Marty's buddy (1957?)

P.

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