Yes, the heavy is named Junior, and there's lots of gaberdine
in it, a fabric which appears often in Charles's books, and
which derives from the old German word for pilgrimage. It
hadn't occured that gaberdine might be carrying some of that
context until I read The Black Mass of Brother Springer. A
matter for the academics. I can tell almost certainly which
chapters were written by W. Franklin Sanders and which by
Charles, with the exception of the one in which the
prostitute is speaking. Think he wrote or rewrote the violent
scenes because they are brief and somewhat reportorial. Betsy
In a message dated 1/31/01 11:44:19 AM,
jt@emazing.com writes:
<< I read it in the fall of '99 and liked it but it
probably is my least
favorite CW
novel. It had some interesting parallels to Miami Blues (bad
guy called
Junior, and
other bits and pieces I forget) and it is fascinating if you
consider it as
a part of
the whole body of work. On its own I don't think it captured
the perfect
balance/mixture/whatnot his later work did (including early
novels such as
HIGH
PRIEST, WOMAN CHASER, WILD WIVES etc) and as a result it was
a bit of a
disappointment. Of course it could well be that the crudeness
of the book
resulted
due to various hands between him and the published
version.
>>
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