On 11/1/05, crimeflix wrote:
>
> Hey Dominic,
> We missed you at the Hard Case Crime reading here in
NYC last night,
> Looking forward to you rockin' the house!
> (and, finally, I have a copy of The Prone Gunman"
thanks to Megan
> Abbott)
> J
> http://www.jasonstarr.com
I recently discovered Manchette myself...I found The Prone
Gunman brilliant! I don't know how leaner one can write and
still come up with a novel as enthralling as this. I still
don't quite understand what Stansberry was exactly getting at
when he refers to Manchette as something of an inspiration
for his Manifesto (and hopefully, we'll see something on that
here in the next couple of days), but I do understand his
enthusiasm for The Prone Gunman.
The damn thing is a bleak as can be, and yet, there's just
enough that in the telling that a reader can have some degree
of empathy for the protagonist. Contrary to what one might
read out there, I don't find this to be overtly political
(the politics, or anti-politics, are there, but not enough to
confuse this with being some sort of "message novel"). If
anything, the fact of telling these over the top, incredible
scenes of violence and mayhem is political in and of
itself...not certain whether I'd call it some sort of
critique on the genre or not.
I loved this book.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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