From Bruen's The Dramatist, in reference to Matthew Stokoe's
High Life:
"It was Chandler on heroin, Hammett on crack, James M. Cain
with a blowtorch, and it matched my mood with a wild
ferocity. The writing was a knucklebuster to the brain,
chainsaw to the gut. It not so much rocked as walloped the
blood with a rush of pure amphetamine. The prose sang and
screamed along every page, a cesspit of broken lives
illuminated with a taste of dark euphoria. I felt downright
feverish. How often is a novel like a literary blow to the
system? I felt Jim Thompson would have killed for this. If
James Ellroy had indeed abandoned the crime genre, then here
as is dark heir."
That's one hell of an endorsement. Taylor drops the names of
a lot of books and authors, but seldom does he go on at such
length.
Has anyone read this book? Is it even close to this
good?
Mark
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