Finished this Larry Brown novel a few days back. It's a
Southern Gothic novel set in Mississipi, so there's no
getting around the Faulkner connection in the critique blurbs
on the back cover.
A punk with a chip of his shoulder gets out of prison and
looks to get even. It invokes the setting again and again and
again.
It wasn't bad, but it seemed more like a movie than a novel.
As far as authorial intention, I would compare it to
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, a novel that feels like
it was written not as a reflection of the author's viewpoint
but more as a parroting of what the author views as the
critics' ideal.
miker
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