In a message dated 3/7/03 5:45:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< ate: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:09:53 -0500 (EST)
From:
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
Subject: RARA-AVIS: new books I've run across -- worth
buying?
I've seen these mentioned in some recent book catalogs
and was wondering
if anyone could tell me if they are really any
good:
Sweet Dream Baby by Sterling Watson -- looks like a
Florida noir (with a
12 year old protag named Travis trying to protect his
aunt), supposedly
endorsed by Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Fred
Chappell (don't know
him) and Michael Connelly.
>>
This one could be good as Watson is a talented writer. If he
isn't a native he's certainly been based in Florida for many
years both writing and teaching writing. He was a pal of
Harry Crews until they had a big falling out. Watson wrote a
novel with a thinly disquised Crews as a character.
Chappell is a North Carolina writer admired for his highly
praised but poor selling mainstream fiction. In addition to
novels, he has published many short stories in the literary
magazines. He also turns a nice fantasy or horror story and
now and then turns up in publications like the revived Weird
Tales. I think he started out as a poet.
Richard Moore
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