Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Racetrack Grit

                                           
           The racetrack has been visited as a setting by Bukowski, Jason Starr and others and now appears to have given us a novel which has elements of the carny part of 'Nightmare Alley'.
          Haven't read Jaimy Gordon's 'Lord of Misrule' as yet but descriptions and reviews also remind me of  Willeford's 'Cockfighter', Gardner's 'Fat City' and Tevis' 'Hustler.



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