Monday, December 1, 2008

First Line of Oakley Hall's Warlock

"Deputy Canning had been Warlock's hope."

So far - i'm halfway through it - Warlock is a fantastic book, if a bit unrelentingly grim (I know the hardscrabble life was tough, but no one joked at all back then?) It's about a small mining town's efforts to install "law and order" and what that means. Thomas Pynchon, as usual, has the best take on it.

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