A first person fever dream. That's White Jazz, my (so far)
all time
favorite novel (with American Tabloid running a close
second.)
When I first picked it up, I was struck by two things. 1)
This looks like
it will be confusing and weird. 2) I didn't know someone
could do this
with crime novels.
I wasn't ready for it, had never seen the likes of it before,
and it
changed the way I looked at writing, and actually led me to
read more
contemporary literary writers. And it led me to push language
in my own
burgeoning fiction.
a.smith
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