The Book:
Fanucci
Year Edition Paperback
Translation Seba Pezzani
The plot:
Cason Statler, a former Pulitzer Prize nominee and former soldier, has just returned from the war in Iraq, disillusioned and suffering from obsessive compulsions, does not think that his lost love, Gabby. He returned to his home town to win her back and forget the war, to get away from bad friends, such as Booger, his fellow soldiers, as dangerous as a rattlesnake in the woods where a raging fire. Cason started working for a local newspaper and discovered, almost by chance, that Caroline Allison, a young woman disappeared, of breathtaking beauty, is in some way related to his brother and at the same time to a local gang. Statler fears that his brother might be somehow involved in the disappearance but the situation is worse than you think, and to discover the truth will be forced to rely just Booger, plunging him into an abyss of depravity, while in the city of Camp Rapture begin to converge fundamentalist racist whites and blacks to discuss the opening of a school that no one really wants.
I finished, FINALLY, "The girl with a heart of steel" ..
I say finally because of all the books I read in Lansdale, that's the only one that I did not like the first for the slowness in describing the facts, according to the total lack of suspense and tensions that characterized the style of my favorite writer .. No night with the light on the nightstand with the ritual phrase "Once I turn the page and then ..".
I do not feel to recommend it, honestly, but not diminished his reputation can be considered ..
I wonder if he really wrote that .. Doubt has instilled in me a friend, telling me that the writers of a certain level, to be able to have a certain pattern of publications, use of "ghostwriters" ... mah!
Writer:
hard to condense a great player as Lansdale. Created in 1951 and is passionate readings of Bradbury's science fiction and adventure type Mark Twain and Jack London. But really range in all subjects, even in the cartoons, to B-movies, pulp literature.
In 1972 he published his first story, but his writing career began in 1980 with "Act of Love" and since then has never stopped. To round
meanwhile, makes every possible work as a peasant to a bouncer in public places, from janitor to factory worker.
has written books of all kinds, westerns, science fiction, horror, thriller, noir. I myself have read all of his sons, but hard to tie one in particular is very good .. at all.
E 'married and has two sons, Keith, and Kasey, the latter singer.
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