I've recently spent three months translating THE FINAL
COUNTRY into Italian. It will be out next September. So, I
must've read the book about ten times, and I definitely loved
it. Sure, it's not another LAST GOOD KISS, but for my money
it's the second best Crumley novel.
What I liked most is the grotesque tone of the book: a big
inside joke, as Mark correctly points out, that makes fun of
many commonplaces of old and not so old detective stories,
even to the point of using disguises, fake beards and so on
:-)
Luca
Luca Conti
luca.conti8@tin.it
luca.con@tiscalinet.it
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> I enjoyed the book. I've always preferred the
Milo
> Milodragovitch character over the Sughrue one, and I
was glad
> to see COUNTRY featured him.
>
> The really interesting thing about it, I think, is
the very
> conscious decision on Crumley's part to pay homage
to the
> plot of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. Like this:
>
> Milo is on a missing persons case when he follows a
big man
> into a bar. The big guy is looking for someone who
used to
> hang out the bar. Turns out the big guy has been in
prison
> and just got out. He busts up the place and then
goes into
> the back office and kills the bar owner with his own
gun.
>
> Milo follows a lead to the house of a woman who he
gets
> talking by giving her coke (not booze) and she
brings back a
> photo supposedly of one of the people the big guy is
looking
> for. And so on ...
>
> One twist is that instead of the big guy being white
and the
> bar being for blacks as in FAREWELL, the big guy is
black and
> most of the people in the bar are white.
>
> The whole plot isn't like FAREWELL--just enough to
play a big
> inside joke.
>
> --Mark
>
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