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A Fine Dark Line

By Joe R. Lansdale

(18)

| eBook | 9780297864745

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Book Description

It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to the skin like molasses. . .

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"Haunting historical novel" In the summer of 1958, the Mitchel family moves to Dewmont, East Texas to run the drive-in movie theatre, which they just bought. They hire half black-half Indian Buster Lighthouse Smith to operate the projector and a blac ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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I read negative comments about this book, claiming that it's a weak crime novel.
The way I see it, the mystery is not meant to be gripping; this is not meant to be a crime novel. It is, rather, a tale -and a very good one at that- of growing-up, dealing with loss of innocence, and self-discover ... (continue)

I read negative comments about this book, claiming that it's a weak crime novel.
The way I see it, the mystery is not meant to be gripping; this is not meant to be a crime novel. It is, rather, a tale -and a very good one at that- of growing-up, dealing with loss of innocence, and self-discovery, in a bygone time and place.
The atmosphere, and the ending, reminded me of the story "The body" by Stephen King. Both charming, nostalgic, violent and realistic.
Recommended.

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