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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jacques Debierue"
<matrxtech@y...> wrote:
>
> What is Thornburg's situation? A few months back
somebody mentioned
health problems,
> if I recall correctly.
There's a really good interview with him here:
http://www.twbooks.co.uk/crimescene/thornburginterview.htm
It seems that he's in a retirement home, and has been unable
to write since having a stroke.
I discovered CUTTER AND BONE earlier this year, and went on
to read everything that Thornburg has written (something that
wouldn't have been possible without the internet - only a few
of his books have ever been published in the UK, and many of
them have been out of print for years even in America). I
regard him as among America's greatest hard-boiled writers,
second only to Charles Willeford. Alex Cutter's speech (in
CUTTER AND BONE) about the Mai Lai photos is one of the
finest pieces of writing I've encountered in the genre. And
it hasn't lost any of its relevance - everything he says can
be directly applied to the Abu Ghraib photos, and the general
response to them.
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