RE: RARA-AVIS: Newer Authors

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Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Newer Authors
From: "Spurlock, Duane" <Dspurlock@paulschultz.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:34:00 -0400
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"Shoedog" is my favorite Pellecanos novel so far--I enjoyed it more than
his Nick novels. I haven't read "The Big Blowdown" yet--with its
"historical" background, it looks a bit different from his previous
books. Meanwhile, I'll have to check out Michael Stone.--Duane Spurlock

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>From:   James Stephenson[SMTP:James_E_Stephenson@umail.umd.edu]
>Sent:   Tuesday, April 22, 1997 8:18 AM
>To:     rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject:    Re: RARA-AVIS: Newer Authors
>
>It had been ages since I picked up anything "new," but a couple of
>months ago I read Michael Stone's _Low End of Nowhere_, the first
>"Streeter" novel.  I was so taken with it that I quickly found and
>devoured the second in the series, _A Long Reach_.  Reasonably
>hard-boiled, but accessible and humorous.  I'd recommend these two
>novels.
>
>And, of course, I've always got to put a plug in for George P.
>Pelecanos--although I was slightly disappointed by his latest effort,
>_The Big Blowdown_.  Anyone with a taste for the harder stuff will find
>pure pleasure in the three Nick Steffanos novels, or the non-series
>novel _Shoedog_.
>-- 
>James Stephenson
>Rare Books & Special Collections Cataloger
>University of Maryland at College Park
>Email: js272@umail.umd.edu
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