Re: RARA-AVIS: DC nonfiction: one example: Pruett

From: M Blumenthal ( blumenidiot@21stcentury.net)
Date: 10 Dec 2001


Todd Mason

> Rather dated now, widely praised when released in '94, is DREAM CITY:
RACE,
> POWER, AND THE DECLINE OF DC, by Tom Sherwood and Harry Jaffe, published
by
> Simon & Schuster.
>
> I haven't read it yet, and haven't seen the notes to THE SWEET FOREVER,

In the acknowledgement Pelecanos credits it as is an "extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Home Rule in Washington D. C. as a major source of factual material in the writing of this novel." Mark

--
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 10 Dec 2001 EST