Just finished this one by Daniel Woodrell. It takes skill to
effectively combine humor with the dark side, and Woodrell
has a talent for it. The plot didn't have any big surprises,
but the narration and the characters are great. The story
involves a tough cop in a rough little backwater town in
bayou country. Here's a few excerpts:
"This was Frogtown, where the sideburns were longer, the
fuses shorter, the skirts higher, and the expectations lower,
and he loved it."
"Jerry Lee Lewis, a regional hero, was booming from the
speakers, "The Killer" singing a vigorously sad song about
bad love gone worse, and beating the piano like he was
married to it."
"She slipped on a sky-blue camisole with a ragged hem that
reached to the bottom of her ribs, then pulled on a pair of
shiny white satin shorts that seemed wetted onto her ass like
hot breath on a cold jewelry window."
"Ronnie told her the news that bad luck had been circling his
block his whole life long and once again it had found a
parking place right outside his door."
I've also read Woodrell's Tomato Red and Give Us a Kiss, the
latter being absolutely wonderful.
miker
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