Only three have caused me to sit in my car to continue listening after arriving at my destination. Over the past several years, I have listened to who knows how many books - a lot. Add a perfect narrator to the audio version of the text and you have something rather special.

It described the book as possessing a rare combination of exceptional story-line and writing that rises to the level of literature. I read a review of the novel, I believe, in the NYTimes before making the purchase. Recalling the moody violence of the early novels of Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, this powerful, potent, and atmospheric thriller is impossible to put down. Roy, Rocky, and her sister hide in the battered seascape of Galveston's country-western bars and seedy hotels, a world of treacherous drifters, pickup trucks, and ashed-out hopes. The girl's name is Rocky, and she is too young, too tough, too sexy-and far too much trouble.

He takes her with him as he goes on the run from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas-an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them, and after a smoking spasm of violence, they are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.īefore Roy makes his getaway, he realizes there are two women in the apartment, one of them still breathing, and he sees something in her frightened, defiant eyes that causes a fateful decision. Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back.From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO series True Detective and soon to be a major motion picture comes a dark and visceral novel set along the wastelands of Galveston. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book.

The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.

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