In a message dated 7/31/05 8:50:42 PM,
winter_writes@earthlink.net writes:
> Along with DIA, which was written some 12 years
later (? Someone know when
> that was originally released?), CARROT also conjured
up images from THE SUN
> ALSO RISES. Instead of Spain, though, the
bullfights take place in TJ, and
> the difference between clean, rich Madrid and
depressed Tijuana are striking.
> Sometimes, during the bullfight sections, Roberts
even lapses into
> Hemingway's style, though not with glaringly obvious
riffs on the minimalist gems like
> "He went to the river. The river was
there." More like the run-on
> descriptions that pepper SUN. If you read SUN,
it really conjures up the idea of
> someone from that book slumming it in
Baja.
>
TSAR is one of my favorite books, having read it at an
impressionable age. Dia De Los Muertos was published in
hardcover December 1997
A Carrot For The Donkey, huh?
John Lau
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