Anyway, Willeford's agent never even sent it to the
publisher, knowing what the
reaction would be. Much of the novel was recycled into
SIDESWIPE.
By the way, I highly recommend Don Herron's WILLEFORD,
available from Dennis
McMillan, a nice, fat study of the great one. It's a quirky
book, not like any
standard biography, which befits Willeford perfectly. You can
learn about everything
from the fatal pepperoni pizza to the truth about Willeford's
fishing "journalism"
for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But for me, the book is worth the
price of admission just to
get Willeford's two-sentence take on the life of Charles
Bukowski.
Adios....Kip
"Anthony Smith" <ansmith@netdoor.com> on 04/29/98
08:01:58 AM
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Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Willeford question
Re. High Priest
> The book is a scream, out Thompsoning Jim
> Thompson. Very bitter, not a mystery or even a crime
novel. To tell you
> anything about the plot (other than the fact that the
title character is
a
> used car salesman) would be to risk ruining
it.
Thanks. I wonder, though, when it was written, to put it in
the scheme of
things. It's earlier than the Mosleys, I guess. I see it's
about to have
another reprint, unless I got my info wrong.
Has anyone heard about the "lost Hoke Moseley" book? Lawrence
Block wrote
a bit about it in an article a few years back, said it's
floating around in
manuscript form and is "unpublishably dark." I wonder if
_anything_ is
unpublishably dark in this day and age...
a.smith
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