Archive for the ‘Texas’ Category
BLACK WATER RISING by Attica Locke
I offer the above quote, a pithy economic assessment of race, not because I find it particularly compelling, though I think it is; nor because it summarizes the plot of this novel; it does not. Rather, it’s there because this novel reads surprisingly like a well-argued survey of American race relations in the 1980s–that it also happens to be a page-turning noir thriller is all the better.
September 4, 2009
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Judi Clark · 
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Tags: 1980s, Murder Mystery, Time Period Fiction · Posted in: Class - Race - Gender, Debut Novel, Facing History, Mystery/Suspense, Noir, Texas
VANILLA RIDE by Joe R. Lansdale
If you like novels that are riveting, wildly profane and yet strangely profound, then welcome to VANILLA RIDE, the latest novel in the Hap & Leonard series from author Joe Lansdale, and if you haven’t read one of his novels yet, then what are you waiting for?
July 23, 2009
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Tags: Interview, Joe Lansdale, Knopf · Posted in: 2009 Favorites, Humorous, Noir, Sleuths Series, Texas, Wild West, y Award Winning Author
