Quote: harleykwin said: Just finished Flood and Dead and Gone both by Andrew Vachss. Both are gritty, excellent books - I'm now hooked on his Burke series of novels. Also just ordered Shella on Amazon as I can't find it in B&N nor any of the smaller book shops in the city.
He was one of the authors recommended in rex's "rec me an author" thread and I am so glad to have picked up his books...
Yay!
Just finished Down Here too. Vachss fuckin' rocks - can't believe I didn't pick his books up til now...
Shella was the first book of his that I read. After that, I scooped up everything he wrote. Flood and Strega are my favorite Burke novels, but I love all his stuff. He has two short story collections (I forget their titles) that have stories featuring a character named Cross. Also great, and Dark Horse released at least one limited series based on the character. If you can find it at your local comics dealer, check out Another Chance To Get It Right - a book he did to raise money for various child protection charities.
yeah, I've checked out his website http://www.vachss.com/ and looked around. He (and his wife, Alice, a former ADA in the Queens' DA's sex crimes unit) are outspoken advocates for abused children. His books focus on those themes - really sad, and his words have the ring of truth to them. I wonder if he was a victim himself as a child? His books cut just a little too close to the bone to just be something that he speaks of from mere observations made during his career.
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
