on 6/16/03 7:33 AM,
abc@wt.net at
abc@wt.net wrote:
> I just finished reading MUSCLE FOR THE WING a week
or so
> ago. I've often wondered if Woodrell would sell
better if
> his titles were more indicative of the content of
his
> novels. This title makes perfect sense, as "The
Wing" is
> the name of the gang Dick mentioned. Anyway, I liked
this
> book a lot. I thought it was better than the other
Rene
> Shade novel I've read, THE ONES YOU DO, and maybe
better
> than GIVE US A KISS.
>
> Bill Crider
> --
Perhaps this talk
of Woodrell could serve as my excuse to mention James Purdy's
novel "Narrow Rooms." "Rooms" is rural, it's lethal, it's
odd
-- and I loved it a lot. Does that mean it counts as "country
noir"? It certainly counts as *good* ...
Pull-quote on the
back of my edition:
"A
dark and splendid affair by an authentic
American
genius" (Gore Vidal)
-- # 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 : 16 Jun 2003 EDT