I haven't read KING SUCKERMAN yet, but I am reading Fred
Zackel's COCAINE AND BLUE EYES, which was published in the
Seventies -- 1978, to be exact. There's a lot of period
detail here (aging hippies, casual acceptance of drugs,
etc.), but with the exception of a couple mentions of Olympia
beer and Penthouse magazine, no real brand names come
up.
Which is neither here nor there, I guess, except maybe it
points out that it's a lot harder to evoke an historical time
than it is to write within one. So I wouldn't knock Pelecanos
too hard on this point.
By the way, I'm really enjoying Zackel's book. Has anyone
else read it? Anyone know anything else about Zackel? Did he
write anything else?
doug
--- Diane Trap <
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> And then there's King Suckerman, where the
product
> placement is
> intended to evoke the glamorous seventies--as I
was
> reading the
> first few chapters I checked the copyright date
on
> the book to
> see if it really was a period piece, but as I
kept
> reading the
> 70's details seemed more forced than natural (and
I
> found it
> a little hard to believe that with all
the
> characters so involved
> with music no one had to wince at the KA-CHUNK!
when
> the 8-track
> changed tracks in the middle of a song).
>
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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