Blood Meridian

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> <<... best thing since the deliquescent toadstool of tom mcguane's _'92 in 
> the Shade_ >>
> 
Tom McGuane.   Back in the early eighties I would have bet on this guy to go 
straight to the head of the class.   He's had a good career, but he levelled 
off a while back in a way not easily foreseen.   He lives out in Montana on a 
ranch and it seems to have mellowed him or something.   He can still write the 
most beautiful sentences and he's funnier than about anybody.   But the early 
books -- The Sporting Club is a particular favorite -- made him the writer I 
most wished I could write like.

He also had a great talent for creating dimwit, slighty or potentially petty 
criminal flunkies -- hired hands, handymen, etc.   Earl Olive is one who comes 
immediately to mind.

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