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But he never, never lets a friendship shrivel and die for lack of attention. The wise man either spends his time well or wastes it gracefully. Pedersen’s manuscript my eyes defocused through the page as I envisioned the novel I could connect around these rough recollections, a novel firmly embedded in the conventions of the Western genre, but dealing with wider and more contemporary issues: with the end of a century, the end of an era, the end of a defining, and for American males a limiting, dream… A last Western.įRIENDS – “There are two things in this life that are easily squandered, and too late regretted: time and friends. WRITING PROCESS – Several times while reading Mr.
As a postscript, Don Winslow, who has been reviewed here several times, is taking Trevanian’s central character in the brilliant novel ‘Shibumi’ forward in a new novel titled ‘Satori’. If you can find it this is a story worth reading. Trevanian parodies the western novel in such a way that the reader suspends disbelief and follows willingly down very dark alleys and through brilliant parks of love and beauty. Truth, justice and the American way are severely challenged, but a hero arises, and then fades. Cutting a swath of sadistic violence, Lieder holds the few inhabitants of Twenty-Mile prisoner, abusing them unmercifully. Hamilton Adams Lieder, psychotic killer and delusional patriot, storms the town with two hateful followers who broke out of jail with him.
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He clutches a series of paperback westerns featuring the Ringo Kid and a fantastic homemade shotgun, and stumbles into Twenty-Mile where he begins to create a life as a hardworking, focused young man. Matthew Dubceck drifts west out of Missouri fleeing untold horror and travail as the son of a drunken loser. The people of Twenty-Mile are few, but each is carved with such clarity that they stand for many – iconic parodies all. There is no need for long reviews of neighbourhood, streetscape and local politics when the broken down buildings serve only to house a collection of the most unforgettable characters a reader might ever meet. The setting, an old mining town in the western mountains of the U.S., keeps the story simple and raw.
‘Incident at Twenty-Mile’ is a novel of extraordinary cunning and clarity. Across genres, Trevanian was an exceptional writer and storyteller. Whitaker taught communications at several American universities in Nebraska and Texas, and died in 2005 in England.