Haven't read SRO, but I did read GIVEADAMN BROWN, the other
book of Pharr's Oldschool reissued, and that one is great --
comparable to a hallucinatory Donald Goines.
doug
--- Keith Logan <
keith@globetrotter.net> wrote:
> THE JONES MEN was a fine read, my preferred of
the
> reissues by Old School
> Books from a couple of years back. Did anyone
try
> S.R.O by Robert Deane
> Pharr? I could not get through it; too
bleak.
> Utterly hopeless, in fact. It
> is (according to the cover blurb)
"heavily
> autobiographical", and if so I
> would not want to walk a mile in Pharr's shoes.
An
> intelligent, literate man
> becomes embroiled in the seedy doings of a
Single
> Room Occupancy live-in
> hotel in Harlem. The narrative wanders from scene
to
> scene, becoming more
> far-out, fantastic and sordid with each step.
Very
> harsh. Has anyone made it
> through the whole book? Any hope at all for
the
> writer character?
>
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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