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- Publisher: Buccaneer Books (Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1568493177
- ISBN-13: 978-1568493176
- Product Dimensions: 22.5 x 14.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 505,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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In the beginning there was the decade we call the 1970s, when Americans lost their faith in almost everything. Government was unstrustworthy, military force didn't work, and dress sense was unknown.The uncertainties of the 20s and 30s made room for Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, so cometh the hour, cometh Spenser. Spenser is a dissident American; not in the same way as the counterculture students who are the fulcrum of the story, but a dissident all the same. He's a believer in personal responsibility, and little else. He's tough, but sincere. And he's witty, so witty, and sensitive, an artist who's busy carving a statue of a native American. The plot ? Oh yes, the plot. If Chandler had more of a taste for the visceral aspects of conflict, then this plot could have come straight from his typewriter. And Parker masters the greatest of the tricks, tying the plot up in a neat parcel, but leaving us all with the clear understanding that none of the participants will be the same again. This is one of the finest attempts at the Chandler genre.
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Robert B. Parker passed away suddenly on 18 January 2011 at the age of 77 while seated at his writing desk, and if there is a God in heaven, he is now pumping iron in the big gym in the sky. He will be sorely missed because he was a straight-arrow liberal East Coast crime writer, keen to take on lots of controversial issues. This book is his 1974 debut as a crime writer at the age of 42. From page 1 he defines the Spenser of 40 future books: fearless, flippant and occasionally "overfond of his own wit", as his first employer in this book remarks. But also possessed with great intelligence, mental agility, powers of intuition and physical prowess.
Spenser is a book character many male readers easily identify with or dream to be. He fights crime and injustice from a liberal moral perspective. He works with and understands members of ethnic and sexual minorities. If bad guys belong to these categories, he knows how to deal with them. Spenser is a free man surrounded by friends and people he knows and will return a call. Never any worries about job security, mortgages, piles of bills. Who would not want to be like Spenser, then or now?
Spenser generally stays in Boston surrounded by a small, ageless posse of associates. The black bruiser Hawk and the sensitive lady friend Susan Silverman are only a few of the many resources Parker/Spenser developed over time. Parker wrote three or four books per year. In 40 Spenser novels no one ever seems to get older. Only we, his readers, did.
Finally, "The Godwulf Manuscript", with 175 pages in small print, is a more labour-intensive production than many later works in which Robert B. Parker made writing look easy and became ever more economical with words. As in all future novels, in "The Godwulf Manuscript" Spenser prevails against heavy odds.
Hope Robert B. Parker will stay in print. Some of the Spenser novels and the ten (10) with Jesse Stone (later played by Tom Selleck) as heroes were serialized on TV and have been an export success. They present the world a warmer, more comforting, liberal face of America.
Spenser is a book character many male readers easily identify with or dream to be. He fights crime and injustice from a liberal moral perspective. He works with and understands members of ethnic and sexual minorities. If bad guys belong to these categories, he knows how to deal with them. Spenser is a free man surrounded by friends and people he knows and will return a call. Never any worries about job security, mortgages, piles of bills. Who would not want to be like Spenser, then or now?
Spenser generally stays in Boston surrounded by a small, ageless posse of associates. The black bruiser Hawk and the sensitive lady friend Susan Silverman are only a few of the many resources Parker/Spenser developed over time. Parker wrote three or four books per year. In 40 Spenser novels no one ever seems to get older. Only we, his readers, did.
Finally, "The Godwulf Manuscript", with 175 pages in small print, is a more labour-intensive production than many later works in which Robert B. Parker made writing look easy and became ever more economical with words. As in all future novels, in "The Godwulf Manuscript" Spenser prevails against heavy odds.
Hope Robert B. Parker will stay in print. Some of the Spenser novels and the ten (10) with Jesse Stone (later played by Tom Selleck) as heroes were serialized on TV and have been an export success. They present the world a warmer, more comforting, liberal face of America.
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We recently lost Robert B Parker and now Spenser's journey has ended it is time to re-read the lot - What a great debut and reading this again it is also a wonderful historical document from the 70's. Brilliant
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