--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Crider"
<bcrider@h...> wrote:
> On Ed Gorman's blog today
(http://www.edgorman.com/edgormanandfriends/)
> there's some interesting commentary on Chandler and
Macdonald, not
to
> mention this: "That said, I'm really impressed by
such writers
Jerry Raine
> (we're buying his new UK novel for Five Star), David
Zeltserman
(whom I've
> just started reading) and a guy named Duane
Swiercynski, whom I
assume we'll
> soon be visiting on the violent ward of a psych
hospital or a
prison."
While disappointed that Ed doesn't feel that I should also be
institutionalized, he did finish Fast Lane and posted the
following review on his blog:
"David Zeltserman's Fast Lane is fast all right, and in all
the good ways. It is a descent into hell in the form of a
private eye novel, a search conducted by shamus Johnny Lane
(a noir name Monogram Pictures just had to use somewhere
along the line when they were cranking out their bargain
basement noir) for the birth parents of the woman who hired
him. Parts of this book reminded me of my favorite Orwell
book, his memoir Down and Out in Paris and London, where
Orwell, though sympathetic to the destitute people he meets
also functions as a spy. If he hadn't brought some distance
to his travels the book would have turned into socialist
mush. Zeltserman operates the same way. Johnny Lane doesn't
use the stand patter, think the standard p.i. thoughts, or
even cry and bleed as we expect of all righteous private ops
to. Zeltserman is too smart for that. There's a distance,
even an irony, on the hell he takes us through. Zeltserman's
is a new and different take on all the traditional tropes and
set pieces. He's a unique and accomplished writer. I sure
want to read more."
-Dave Z.
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