Have you (anybody) read both versions of the book ? I'm
curious as to whether DELIVER will have a significant
difference to the earlier publication.. (though I think Don
Herron made close comparisons in his memoir)
Now thinking back, one thing about WHIP HAND is that it
seemed 'hollow' - I didn't get the feeling there was
something to be found in between the lines as there was in
every other book I've read by him. For lack of a good term,
it wasn't a 'conscious' book. I think that has always been
one of the pleasures in his stuff, the feeling of the author
looking back at you from the pages with a crooked
smile.
BLACK MASS seems to be somewhat elusive a title; haven't had
the chance of reading it yet. For whatever bizarre reason I
imagine it having a kinship to Robert Duvall's film THE
APOSTLE. --Juha.
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Yes, the heavy is named Junior, and there's lots of gaberdine
in it, a fabric which appears often in Charles's books, and
which derives from the old German word for pilgrimage. It
hadn't occured that gaberdine might be carrying some of that
context until I read The Black Mass of Brother Springer. A
matter for the academics. I can tell almost certainly which
chapters were written by W. Franklin Sanders and which by
Charles, with the exception of the one in which the
prostitute is speaking. Think he wrote or rewrote the violent
scenes because they are brief and somewhat reportorial.
Betsy
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