I just finished The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford, a writer
probably best known for Wild At Heart, which David Lynch made
into a movie. The book started out with a plot (A hooker and
her boyfriend plot to rob a pimp) but it fell apart halfway
through. The narrative just completely disintegrated into a
bunch of very loosely connected vignettes that have nothing
to do with the original plot, and the protagonist disappears
only to reappear at the end, after being shot and left for
dead by some cult members, who have no connection to anything
else in the story. It's never explained how he met them or
what happened. (I can see why David Lynch likes him so much.
They think alike.) Does anyone know if his other works fail
as spectacularly as this one?
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