Title: Tim Powers at the height of his...
Product review: Last Call is a spellbinding, spine-tingling tale. To read the synopsis of the book here or read other reviews, you may be thinking: Powers can't pull this off. He's got too many themes, too many things going on. But somehow from the Fisher King and Bugsy Segal and tarot cards and chaos theory and TS Eliot and so much more he fashions something new, something whole.Here the realistic, dark, somewhat noir feel, not quite Raymond Chandler, gets mixed up with the urban fantasy feel of, say, Charles de Lint. Unlike de Lint's work, though, Powers doesn't run off to fairy land. The book stays rooted in its modern American West setting. His characters are realistic and complex. The events, while filled with that fantastic and that phantasmogoric, flow naturally, building and building the trap in which our anti-hero finds himself trapped, playing poker for his life.Highly recommended.
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