"Nathan Cain"
IndieCrime@gmail.com wrote:
<< 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?
>>
THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE -- Gifford's book of noir film
"reviews," is great.
Some of his stuff is very good -- more prose-poem than
typical plotted narrative, as you note about SINALOA STORY.
Which, I might mention, is the last thing by him I read. And
that was published several years ago.
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