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Mary Burns's avatar

Love the specifics about the printing and newspaper offices. I grew up around those.

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Douglas Glover's avatar

Thanks, Mary. I didn't know you had that in your background. Not the same world anymore, alas.

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Joseph Schreiber's avatar

I just happen to have a copy of this picked up on a sale table somewhere. I haven't read a detective novel in years—could be fun!

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Douglas Glover's avatar

Reading it for fun is the right approach. I've been rereading it the last couple of days. I had forgotten what a damaged man Precious is. Makes it less funny and more novel-like. I'm also rereading Hardy's Jude the Obscure and see parallels. Characters who are authors of their own catastrophes. Detectives with miserable personal lives.

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