RARA-AVIS: Lansdale's FREEZER BURN...

From: R. & J. Clinton ( clinton65@comcast.net)
Date: 23 Mar 2006


From: "Charlie Williams" < cs_will@hotmail.com>
> I guess Joe Lansdale is somewhere in there too. Could
> you call FREEZER BURN redneck noir?

Perhaps, though I usually associate redneck-noir w/ a true backwoods or very rural setting, and a cast of characters who on the face appear unsophisticated and uneducated, shunning the modern world for a host of reasons. Lansdale's FREEZER BURN had some of those elements, I suppose, but probably not enough -- in my mind -- to label it redneck noir.

I *would*, however, call it possibly the best book by Lansdale I've ever read -- in fact, it's one of my all-time favorites, period.

Ron Clinton

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