Bill:
DC Quartet - Pelecanos' name for the group
the big blowdown king suckerman the sweet forever shame the
devil
set in approx. ten year intervals.
Maura
At 10:29 PM 8/10/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I've been reading through George Pelecanos' novels
this summer, and just
>located his first two (thank you interlibrary loan).
I'm really impressed
>with the high level of writing in his first, A Firing
Offense (1992).
>
>He is too slow in pacing for some readers, but that's
because he doesn't
>just take his protagonist through different locations
and encounters on the
>way to a climax. Nick enjoys drinking, sometimes
snorting, and the game of
>selling a line to someone, and that translates into
unexpected experiences
>along the way. Pelecanos is excellent on the frenetic
world of discount
>(appliance) selling or, for my money, the feel of
certain restaurants and
>bars, either as places one works or places one lives.
And, his shootouts
>are carefully staged, with equal parts of planning
and spontaneous action
>determining the outcome.
>
>Some have talked about a "Washington Quartet," but
all the novels center on
>DC and a loose group of characters who connect to the
Greeks--Old Nick, his
>son Nick, Costa and Dimitri. All of the novels can be
lined up into a
>chronology involving these characters, starting with
The Big Blowdown. The
>weaving of characters and places through the
different novels offers
>unexpected riches, a world one enters.
>
>Anyone know how the order would go after Blowdown?
Expect A Firing
>Offense might be second, and Nick's Trip third. After
that?
>
>Bill Hagen
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