Christmas reading

[Don Corathers]

J. Anthony Lukas's Big Trouble is not a history exactly--more like an
elegantly written (and exhaustive) true crime book--about the conflict in
the Coeur d'Alene. I'm reluctant to say more about the crime and the trial
that are at the center of it because it seems likely they are treated in
some way in AtD (I'm just around p. 340 of AtD, so I don't know). I don't
want to cause any inadvertent spoilage, even by mentioning an historical
event.

Anyway the Lukas book is a great yarn, meticulously researched and filled
with the textures of the time and place.

Looking forward to the group read.

Don Corathers    




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Dave Monroe
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 10:27 AM
To: John Pendergast; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Christmas reading

--- John Pendergast <jpender at siue.edu> wrote:

> A month or so ago, as we were all gearing up for the
> big read, I vaguely remember a recommendation for a
> history of the Colorado labor movemement. Maybe
> there was more than one. Now that I have finished
> AtD, and before I embark on a second read, I want to
> read up on some background history of the events in
> the novel. Off-list is fine.

But on is better.  Remind us all.  Thanks!


 
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