I once read an interview with singer-songwriter Warren Zevon,
in which he made it clear that his interest in MacDonald's
novels had its origins in some kind of imagined father-son
relationship. Zevon idolized MacDonald and actually met him
during an extremely troubled time in his (Zevon's)
life.
Jack
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Burton Smith
<kvnsmith@...> wrote:
> When I was doing an essay on Macdonald several years
ago, I heard
> from a lot of fans, and it turned out many of them
had read him in
> their early twenties or late teens. There's
something sorta
paternal
> about Archer, the detective as father figure, I
think, that
appeals
> to the adolescent or young adult mindset. All those
troubled kids
in
> those stories, and it was always Archer, come
a-calling, who dug
down
> deep and understood.
>
> And of course, Macdonald's heyday was the sixties
and seventies,
an
> era chockful of young adult angst and father issues.
To question
the
> status quo is, in a way, to rebel against your
father.
>
> You like to talk and question, to understand, read
Macdonald.
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