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The Goodreads description is as brief and accurate as any I would want. It tells us only the beginning: that Vincent Parry was convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to life at San Quentin. He managed to escape prison and return to San Francisco.
The book is written in third person limited and we know what Parry is seeing and thinking at all times. One would not think reader sympathy would be with an escaped convict. There are reasons to believe he was wrongly convicted. For much of th ...more
The book is written in third person limited and we know what Parry is seeing and thinking at all times. One would not think reader sympathy would be with an escaped convict. There are reasons to believe he was wrongly convicted. For much of th ...more
This book really didn't connect with me. I found the writing style intolerable after a while. I abandoned the book two-thirds of the way in. Maybe Goodis was a better movie writer and indeed the movie of this book is a Bogart-Bacall classic.
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Jun 23, 2011
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