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Title: Side-splitting and heart-warming
Review: The Pickled Dog Caper is a remarkable book, a sort of cross between Everyman and Moll Flanders recast in 18th century American. It has the vast sweep one expects in an historical novel, accurately portraying the mores, speech, and costumes of the day, a tribute to what must have been exhaustive (and exhausting) research. Roger Paulding takes on the grand themes of colonial times - sin, guilt, redemption, colonization, the plight of Native Americans, and slavery - in prose reminiscent of Mark Twain, and with charming and quixotic characters Twain himself might have created. Indeed, Richard Makepeace has been added to my list of all-time favorite fictional characters. The Pickled Dog Caper had me laughing out loud one moment and plumbing the depths of the human condition the next. It is side-splitting, heart-warming, and a must read.
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