In a message dated 2/5/03 4:02:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
<< From: "John Williams" <
johnwilliams@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: 1960s: No acid freakouts?
Oh and an afterhought - some interesting, very vaguely
h/b novels of the
period are those set actually set in the music
business, Elaine Jesmer's
Motown roman a clef, Number One With A Bullet, Babs
Deal's terrific
Nashville novel, High Lonesome World - btw has anyone
read any of Babs
Deal's other stuff?
John
>>
I wasn't familiar with that Babs Deal novel. Thanks for the
tip. I have a Bantam reprint of a mainstream novel ACRES OF
AFTERNOON originally published by McKay in 1959. The Bantam
blurb said it was "...a startling first novel by a startling
young novelist." And further down: "Babs H. Deal writes of
her generation with the brilliance of a Fitzgerald, the
unsparing realism of an O'Hara."
I have not read the novel although I intend to. The fact that
this reprint does not have a word or two of praise clipped
from reviews has slowed me down as Bantam was big on doing
that when possible. But then, it may mean nothing. I have
liked Babs' stories in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock
mystery magazines, some of which were reprinted in the "Best
of" volumes and other anthologies.
John, you probably were on the list when some months ago we
discussed the Babs and Borden Deal soap opera situation with
John D. MacDonald as presented in the Hugh Merrill bio of
JDM. If not, you might find the archives of interest.
Richard Moore
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