From Publishers Weekly
Four violence-ridden novellas well served by on-pitch dialogue trace the intersecting paths of characters whom readers met in Wild at Heart . Gifford's A Good Man to Know is due in April from Clark City Press.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The genre of these four novellas, a sequel to Gifford's Wild at Heart (made into the 1990 film of the same name), might be termed "gothic noir." They take place in an American South filled with hoodlums, dangerous women, psychopaths, epigram-spouting good old boys and girls, and an air of general malevolence. At the center are Sailor and Lula, the ill-fated lovers of Wild at Heart . They are reunited in New Orleans, years after the events of the earlier book, when Pace, their son, is kidnapped. Back together, they seek to redeem youthful mistakes through devotion to one another and everyday normalcy, though fully aware of the wild life nearby that threatens to pull their precarious union apart. Though an absurdist streak running through these tales nearly reduces them to caricature, Sailor and Lula's passion for one another gives these works a flesh-and-blood emotional reality. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/90.
- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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