Re: RARA-AVIS: Catching up...

From: Doug Bassett ( dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Date: 08 Nov 2003


T Jefferson Parker's LAGUNA HEAT seems to me to be a fairly straightforward Ross Macdonald homage.

doug

--- JIM DOHERTY < jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Re your point about a Ross Macdonald pastiche (or
> completion).
>
> > "Although a lot of people seem to work in the
> fields
> > Macdonald first
> > sowed, few have ever tried to capture his voice,
> so
> > I'm stuck wondering
> > who COULD do it. Thomas Cook? Margaret Atwood?"
>
> I haven't read it personally (though I hope to
> soon),
> but I understand TEXAS WIND by our own James
> Reasoner
> was a particularly good riff on the Macdonald style.
>
> JIM DOHERTY

===== Doug Bassett dj_bassett@yahoo.com

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