Crumbs! Not content with
bigging up Eightball Boogie a few weeks ago, International Noir has gone and love-bombed our humble offering
The Big O, to wit:
“Burke’s The Big O … moves out of classic pulp-noir territory into a kidnap caper with style and plotting more like Elmore Leonard (or maybe Donald Westlake) than Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler … The result is a kaleidoscopic narrative that moves forward at a rapid pace – and the result is also quite funny, in the way that Leonard’s novels are frequently funny: expectations are overturned, characters move inexorably toward an unforeseen climax, and we glide past unbelievable coincidences without hesitation … The Big O is, ultimately, a crime farce of the first order (that is to say, it stands up very well to the Leonard comparison …) … the plotting seems casual, unplanned, with the random pattern of life – but looking back, the story is as tightly structured as a jigsaw puzzle … I highly recommend The Big O, and wish for the sake of its potential readership that it soon finds wider distribution – in the U.S., for example …”
Were we physiologically capable of having another blog’s baby, we’d be snuggling up under the duvet with
International Noir right now. We loves ya, baby!
1 comment:
Indeed. That's pretty much a home run on the reviews front. Bitchin!
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