Re: RARA-AVIS: the city and the country

Bonnie (bjenning@ponyexpress.net)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:44:09 -0600 >Crumley and Woodrell are both marvelous masters of the non-urban tale, each
>in his own manner. You won't find many stylistic similarities between the
>two, but both capture a skewed semi-outsider characterization in wonderful
>manners. Crumley's characters act like they're still in the wild west, only
>a hundred years later. Woodrell's characters have a jeeter feel -- country
>folks who've moved into town for a generation or so, but still have their
>Snopes-style wiles and eccentricities. -- Duane

Hi, I'm new to this list but could not resist jumping in and giving my full
support on James Crumley, one of my favorite authors and certainly one of my
favorite character's to come from a hard-boiled novel. Duane, I felt that
you captured Crumley extremely well here. I've read all of his novels with
the exception of "Bordersnakes" and this sits waiting only because it's the
last of his I've not read, so I have some reluctance to do so until I can
have some inkling that he may be producing something new soon. Anyone know
if there are whispers of such??

Bonnie
Current Read: Straight Man by Richard Russo
Just Finished: Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
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