If you come across it, read it, it cannot fail to
impress.
Anyway, it may be of interest to you all that Charyn, already
an
established writer, decided to write a crime novel after
reading Ross
Macdonald's "The Galton Case". He was, he says, immediately
struck by
what he called McDonald's "particular craft", his ability to
build structures
into a "wild masonry" with "sad strange histories that crept
between
the tight closed spaces". Charyn felt that Macdonald "were in
the
habit of undressing bodies to find the skeleton underneath".
He was
also impressed by the complete lack of sentimentality in the
Archer
books.
Which is funny in a wat because there is a kind of
"sentimentality"
in the books which is borne out by the fact that they are
very
persoanl books for Charyn - but more on this
later......
---------------------------
Peter Walker
Formerly 'pete@u-net.windy.com' and
'peter@thewillows.demon.co.uk
Sometimes 'mattscudder@yahoo.com
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