I love "Purple Cane Road" for everything: mostly the incredible richness and complexity of it. It would take me years to write a novel like that, with several through-lines (which seem obscure at times); with so many weird, quirky, unforgettable characters; with a single narrative voice, but with multiple points of view, including first, third and omniscient, all in one unified story; lush descriptions of a fascinating place; wild, driven, original action scenes; ambiguous concepts of good and evil.
Whew. It is a big mother of a crime novel. If you like to get lost in a novel and live in that world, this will do it, at least for me.
-- Roger
Copyright © 2012, Roger R. Angle
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