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Column: Deconstruction Zone

Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver’s The God of War

by Rodger Jacobs

[30.Sep.08] :. Silver took the vital ingredients of a regional novel and composed an L.A. tale, but set many miles east -- at the edge of the desolate Salton Sea -- a wasteland that would have held tremendous appeal to T.S. Eliot.

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Gunman’s Rhapsody by Robert B. Parker

by John G. Nettles

Next time Robert B. Parker decides to time-travel, especially when mucking about with mythology, he'd be well-advised to bring his 'old' shooting-irons with him.

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