M-T (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:07:29 -0400
Sullivan's post is right on the mark. Few long novels justify
their size; for each Cervantes or Dostoyevsky there thousands
of writers of thick potboilers without literary merit. I can
recall very few great thick novels from the more or less
recent past: del Paso's _Palinuro de M鸩co_ was one; Norman
Mailer's _Harlot's Ghost_ was another; Pynchon's
_Mason & Dixon_ was spectacular; and, to say on topic, T.
Jefferson Parker's _The Triggerman's Dance_ was a great
hardboiled read -- I mentioned Parker's excellent novel in
this group before.
Regards,
mt
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