To tie our Lawrence Block-theme to the recent discussion on
Newton Thornburg, I see Block in his primer TELLING LIES FOR
FUN & PROFIT has a short writeup on Thornburg. Block
quotes Thornburg's description of a waitress in CUTTER AND
BONE as an example of good characterization. Block goes on to
say "if there's a bad sentence anywhere in the novel
[CUTTER AND BONE] I didn't notice it."
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