In working my way through a stack of newspapers I set aside
to read later, I ran across a Loren Estleman review of the
above title. He concludes with:
"'The Drift' is the kind of book Chester Himes might have
written but for censorship. John Ridley declares his own
independence from today's repressive left through free use of
the dreaded N-word and the stoicism that [main character]
Charlie shows in the face of hate. He bids fair to become the
Ralph Ellison of the postmodern hardboiled novel."
Now that is very high praise indeed. Has anyone read it? Is
it really that good?
I've only read Ridley's first, Stray Dogs (basis of the Stone
film U-Turn, which I've avoided). I liked it a lot, mostly as
an homage to noir. I've been meaning to read more of him, but
haven't gotten around to it. Maybe this review will inspire
me to pick him up again. How are his other books? And how
many books films and comics does this guy write in a year?
Damn, he's prolific.
Mark
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 29 Dec 2002 EST