Carrie Pruett wrote:
> I'm getting in on this late, but for what it's worth
- I attended
> a Price reading in DC last week, and as an
unadvertised bonus,
> he was introduced by Pelecanos. He said that he had
come "for
> the same reason, as all of you, because I'm a
Richard Price fan,"
> and said that as far as socially important
psychological explorations
> of character (although he said it much more artfully
than that), he
> put "Clockers" in the same category as other
favorite novels - The Grapes
of
> Wrath and the Brothers Karamazov.
********* Good to see you again, Carrie. Been a long time. So
Pelecanos liked THE GRAPES OF WRATH? I guess I need to read
it, but I have a hard time with politically oriented novels
like the Proletariat batch that grew out of the Thirties. I
liked OF MICE AND MEN a lot, though. I know I read THE PEARL,
but I can't remember anything about it.
It's strange how some books engrave themselves into your
memory. I bet it's been 30 years since I read OF MICE AND MEN
and I still remember a lot of it, but I read Ellroy's THE
BLACK DAHLIA maybe 8 years ago, but when I recently reread it
very little of it was familiar to me.
miker
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