Thanks for replying, Brandt. I like most of Parker's
stand-alones. I actually rank two of them (WILDERNESS and
DOUBLE PLAY) right up there with his best stuff.
We'll see if Ed Harris's movie version of APPALOOSA, due to
be released next year, will increase interest in RBP's
Western fiction and his other stand-alone works.
Jack
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Brandt"
<bldodson@...> wrote:
>
> I've read it, although it's been 10 years or more.
Yes, I agree,
especially
> with you comparison to some of the elements of
Deliverance. Much
different
> than his Spenser novels, although I don't believe it
did very well.
>
> Parker had some initial problems developing a
readership outside of
Spenser.
> His stand alone, All Our Yesterdays, didn't do well
at all and
neither did
> Three Weeks in Spring (a book about his wife's
battle with breast
cancer).
> In fact, until he began his Sunny Randall and Jesse
Stone series,
ONLY his
> Spenser work has done well. The possible exception
would be a non-
fiction
> work he did on weightlifting. I believe it hit the
mark, although
it's now
> out of print.
>
>
>
> Brandt
>
> www.brandtdodson.com
>
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