Re: RARA-AVIS: city vs. country
kip.stratton@natinst.com
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:58:59 -0600
I dunno. Certainly, in terms of quantity, the city wins over
the country.
But I think the best novel I've read in the genre is Edward
Anderson's
THIEVES LIKE US, which is set in Depression-era rural Texas and
Oklahoma.
Thompson's POP. 1280 and KILLER INSIDE ME are small-town/rural,
as is
Willeford's COCKFIGHTER, and they'd be in my top five list. The
rural
scene isn't exactly the bucolic paradise the Romantics believed
it to be,
nor is it exactly like Andy Griffith. I know. Like Anderson and
Thompson,
I grew up in rural Oklahoma and Texas, worked on small-town
newspapers in
the region.
Later...Kip
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