Mark Sullivan (AnonymeInc@webtv.net)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:32:20 -0400 (EDT)
SPOILER ALERT:
There is no way to discuss this without giving something
away.
Personally, I was disappointed by the last line of
Willeford's Pick-Up, thought it was a cheap and gimmicky end
to an otherwise top-rate first novel. I thought the shock
twist that it was an interracial relationship was totally
unecessary. For me at least, it turned what was an
interesting story about a doomed love affair into a social
text. If it was supposed to be a study of racism, then it
shouldn't have been saved to the end. On the other hand, if
it was supposed to show race didn't matter, why specify at
the end? Now granted, Willeford has explored race in other
books, such as Black Mass of Brother Springer, but I figure
the handling of it here was just Willeford as first-time
novelist thinking he needed a twist, so he held it back until
the end.
Mark
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