Robert Elkin wrote:
It's difficult for me to maintain interest in writings which
feel to me like the protagonist has become a sort of
self-proclaimed vessel for the exercise of the righteous
wrath of god...and Vachss' writings feel that way to me, even
Shella, which I loved until I'd read perhaps one Vachss book
too many. His writings seem to me to have an agenda beyond
the fictional.
************** All fiction has an agenda beyond the story.
The manner in which it is served up has a lot to do with the
quality of the work.
miker
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