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5.0
There is cringe worthy horror in the world around us, and Dan Foley is great at latching onto these real world horrors, salting them with a little bit of the supernatural, and serving them up cold.
GYPSY is a no-nonsense tale of judgement carried out for an unspeakable attack committed on a young woman. There is no excess of language, yet the entire story unfolds as a living breathing thing. This is not the first book by Foley that I have read, and I always come away satisfied that the book had an outcome. There is no poetry here, just spare and to-the-point prose.
The characters in GYPSY are well known to anyone who lives in a small, rural town. The names of these people in your town may be different, but you know them well… the bully and his posse, the friendly waitress in the diner, the put upon waitress in the local gin mill, and the less the honorable sheriff. Real people, in a real place who live their lives in a rut.
Pick up a copy of GYPSY. You'll see what I mean.
GYPSY is a no-nonsense tale of judgement carried out for an unspeakable attack committed on a young woman. There is no excess of language, yet the entire story unfolds as a living breathing thing. This is not the first book by Foley that I have read, and I always come away satisfied that the book had an outcome. There is no poetry here, just spare and to-the-point prose.
The characters in GYPSY are well known to anyone who lives in a small, rural town. The names of these people in your town may be different, but you know them well… the bully and his posse, the friendly waitress in the diner, the put upon waitress in the local gin mill, and the less the honorable sheriff. Real people, in a real place who live their lives in a rut.
Pick up a copy of GYPSY. You'll see what I mean.
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