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Title: Pulp literature
Review: Woodrell finds the best way of combining pulp fiction with actual literature. This, I think, is his best book so far. The noir feeling is mixed with a sort of Gothic-Faulkner that is incredibly appealing.Don't get me wrong, though, the pace of this novel moves unlike anything Faulkner wrote. The characters are rich and unique. The reader often feels as if a world unknown (almost a parallel world in the Ozarks) is being glimpsed. I don't know if there are Goomer Doctors in real life or is this is one of the author's creations. Either way, the novel feels authentic in a way I haven't experienced since reading Hemingway.
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