<< I've finished CHASER
and I'm halfway through HIGH PRIEST and I can't help
but notice some
similarities between the narrators of each:
One is named Russell Haxby, the other is named Richard
Hudson.
Both are used car salesmen.
Each have a mother married to a Hollywood
producer.
Haxby lives in San Francisco; Hudson just moved from
there.
I can't help wondering if Willeford had some more ideas
involving the
character from HIGH PRIEST but couldn't use the same
person.
>>
This is from an interview in WILLEFORD by Don
Herron:
Don Herron: Russell Haxby and Richard Hudson in the two used
car salesman books, aren't they the same guy?
Charles Willeford: Richard Hudson is the guy that Hemingway
stole from me, for his book Islands in the Stream.
DH: He did what?
CW: Richard Hudson was his hero, I think, but that
<book> came out later.
DH: Oh, it was coincidental. Or he stole that from you?
CW: Well, mine's first. What the hell, you know, I got a
claim.
DH: Yeah, but I still think he's Russell Haxby. I read those
and he seemed like the same guy to me.
CW: No, he's not. He's different. Different.
DH: Well, he seemed like the same guy to me--
CW: You see, he's got all these secondary characteristics,
but he's more ambitious.
There's also a Richard Hudson in Willeford's Understudy for
Love, but it's not the same character.
Alan
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