RARA-AVIS: Re: Gerald Kersh

From: Max Gilbert ( jmaxgilbert@yahoo.com)
Date: 29 Jan 2005


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@y...> wrote:
> ****************
> I thought his PRELUDE TO A CERTAIN MIDNIGHT was pretty
> darned bleak, too. It's about the search for the
> murderer of a young girl. It wasn't bad except for
> the occasional divergences.
>
> miker
>
I read PRELUDE TO A CERTAIN MIDNIGHT a few years back and it certainly qualified as bleak, but I remember at least some of the cast of characters were likable, whereas with NIGHT & THE CITY everyone you're introduced to (in the first half of the book at least) is either reprehensible or pathetic and the main character, Harry Fabian is a pimp and blackmailer who is thoroughly dishonest with himself as well as everyone he meets--being stuck in his head can be pretty disturbing. I definitely recommend the book.

Max

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