JAMES: THE WIND OF TEXAS
The new release this month, with regard to the film noir, and the wind of Texas by James Reasoner. Both
said thus far, this is a classic of the genre, a novel of worship, originally published in 1980 by Manor Books, and then went out and never reprinted. Until, in 2004, that old pirate Allan Guthrie - one of the best exponents of tartan noir, literary agent, editor and God knows what else - decided not to get it back again to the glorious colors of the Point Blank to present it anew to the public.
James Reasoner's novel has already in its DNA, then, the taste of gem collectors. Not enough story to a lost ark, THE WIND OF TEXAS is a great book. To read, even better, to savor.
Built on a story by classic of the genre - the detective Cody was asked by a lady of the bourgeoisie Texas to find her missing daughter - Reasoner's novel goes far beyond cataloging possible. With a dry style, effective, which smells of spurs and sand from a mile away, the author uses the story as a ploy to draw a Texas sunset, which fades in plastic cactus and fake horns of Longhorn, which fades between clubs and local kitsch. Empty symbols bartering traditions and epic story of a land with a false image gallery, a junk western massification open heart.
THE WIND OF TEXAS, therefore, is not only a great film noir, but a melancholy novel, Twilight, which alternates with visions of the modern rubbery sparks melancholy of a past that will disappear.
Of course, you will find also chases, loves, beatings and shootings, as in any self-respecting American crime. You will have plot and investigation, twists and dead ends just as it has taught you breathe in aromas between Chandler and James Crumley and Erskine Caldwell.
But in the light, almost undercurrent, if you can look ahead, you will also find the great parable of ordinary people, that does not solve the mystery immediately thanks to the incredible sudden stroke of genius, but is instead forced to try all avenues before hit the right one, that still manages to fall in love so sweet and vulnerable, remains amazed at the result more surprising, simply because they had not thought of. A novel and beautiful
cut deeply into everyday reality, effectively translated by Marco Vicentini who managed to keep perfectly cadenced style and plan of James Reasoner. The
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