William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
On 27 August 1999, B. Cox wrote:
: May I suggest Cockfighter and The Woman Chaser. Two of
my favorites.
: For my money, infinitely more interesting than any of
the Hoke Moseley
: novels.
When I reread _Cockfighter_ I'm going to watch for the
Ulysses parallels. It completely passed me by when I first
readit.
I like the Hoke books--well, I like everything Willeford
wrote--and I'd never say his other stuff was "infinitely more
interesting." The Hoke books are plenty interesting and
anyone could do much worse than to read them.
Has anyone else read _The Difference_? I ordered a copy of
the new edition from Dennis McMillan. It's a short Western, a
twisted YA novel, that sometimes reminded me of _A Cool
Million_ by Nathanael West. I read it in sections while
commuting, when I should have read it in one sitting, so I
lost some of the effect. The hero, a young man whose father
was killed by a rich family of ranchers, seeks revenge. The
thing that got me the most was that he was thrown by his
horse early on and came to with a gurgling, grating noise in
his head, because something had been knocked out of place and
a vein was right up against some part of his ear. He has to
hum to drown it out, and you don't realize he keeps on
humming until another character asks him to stop, days
later.
Bill
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