RE: RARA-AVIS: Where have you gone Rara-Avis (Brewer)

From: Mark Sullivan (DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 13 Jul 2010

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    Don't get me wrong, I'm also glad Hard Case published Wounded and the Slain. And I enjoyed it well enough, but I found it one of his lesser books. Mark

    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > From: tom@tomarmstrongmusic.com
    > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:13:01 +0000
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Where have you gone Rara-Avis (Brewer)
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    > yeah I liked "wounded & slain" too, and don't really get all the hate for it. it's maybe too obviously Freudian, with the wife character having to relive her trauma to overcome it. but I enjoyed that book and was very glad that Hard Case made it available again.
    >
    > I remember not really digging "cassidy's girl" so much. wasn't that the one where the guy crashed the bus...twice? it just seemed silly. but a lot of Goodis is silly if you want to look at it that way. he still has that weird power.
    >
    > and his last book "somebody's done for" is decent. not "street of no return" awesome, but still pretty good.
    >
    > Tom Armstrong
    >
    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@...> wrote:
    > >
    > > And BEHOLD THIS WOMAN, a very early one, is his worst.
    > >
    > > THE WOUNDED AND THE SLAIN is one of my favourites, though, so you might well
    > > like BEHOLD THIS WOMAN.
    > >
    > > Al
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "Ron Clinton" <clinton65@...>
    > > To: <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
    > > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:00 AM
    > > Subject: RE: RARA-AVIS: Where have you gone Rara-Avis (Brewer)
    > >
    > >
    > > > Not a fall, per se, and I probably overstated that by comparing him to
    > > > Brewer, but certainly an uneven finish. THE WOUNDED AND SLAIN and FIRE IN
    > > > THE FLESH, for example, are two later books that are far cries from the
    > > > brilliance of his earlier work. Having said that, as you rightly point
    > > > out,
    > > > THE BLONDE ON THE STREET CORNER and SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER/DOWN THERE
    > > > sandwiched these two lesser works, and both are quite good. His final
    > > > one,
    > > > SOMEBODY'S DONE FOR, was a generally unremarkable capstone, but certainly
    > > > better than WOUNDED and FIRE. So again -- yes, more uneven a career end
    > > > than a linear decline.
    > > >
    > > > Ron C.
    > >
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