I wouldn't call it a "cozy," but I know what Card was talking
about. The book takes place in a small town off the coast of
Maine and is written in a voice suitable to that location.
It's definitely not a hardboiled voice -- but it is a
non-hardboiled voice telling a noir story.
One warning: Card's review contains some pretty egregious
spoilers, so if you want to read the book, you might want to
skip reading the review. Part of the pleasure of the book is
a series of things you learn as the tale unfolds, and Card
just rattles several of those things off dismissively in a
single sentence. It reminds me of the single worst example of
back-cover copy I ever read, on the Vintage paperback edition
of Nabokov's INVITATION TO A BEHEADING, which perversely
gives away every single surprise in the story. When I gave a
copy of that book to a friend, I whited-out every noun on the
back cover first, to prevent the book from being
ruined...
--Charles
--------- Charles Ardai Editor, Hard Case Crime
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Gratefulbear"
<gratefulbear@c...> wrote:
> The Colorado Kid, upcoming from Hard Case Crime in
October, has
been reviewed at Amazon.com by Orson Scott Card. (I'm not
sure why a science fiction writer would be the one to review
it...) He writes, "Alas, what he [Stephen King] actually
turned in was a cozy, a sort of Jan Karon take on the
hard-boiled genre." What an insult! If true, this would be
the first "cozy" published by Hard Case Crime.
>
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