Cry Me A River eBook TR Pearson
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In Cry Me A River, T.R. Pearson writes of murder and its consequences in a small southern town. By book's end we of course know who done it and why, but the greatest pleasure lies in Pearson's own investigations into carnal relations, sexual jealousy, men and women, the mean, the low-down, and the dead. That he manages to do so with such winsome humor and unflagging originality is a tribute to his craft. Cry Me A River is T.R. Pearson at his finest.
Cry Me A River eBook TR Pearson
On page 2 of Cry Me a River, T. R. Pearson's sixth novel, the narrator, a policeman, writes of his small town in eastern Virginia near Roanoke: "Our tragic episode [suggests] that we were, after all, under the surface of things, a community of passionate people who sometimes slaughtered each other for love." The "tragic episode" refers to the murder of two men, a suicide, and the downfall of a femme fatale who is at the heart of the conflict.When the narrator's friend, a fellow police officer, is murdered, police have no clue who did the deed, except for a Polaroid photo of a nude woman, tucked into a fold of the murdered man's wallet; a suspicious person who has been severely beaten; and a person of interest seen driving a sizable yellow Cadillac sedan.
A French phrase sums up the truth of the case: "Cherchez la femme" ("look for the woman"). The narrator says the woman in question "seemed to have a fairly mystical effect. She occupied a middle ground between belle and slattern, between proper women and sluts. She didn't attempt to disguise her itch and was hardly ashamed of indulging her urges." Her magical allure threw a hypnotic spell upon men. It's no surprise, then, when "you get three boys [young men] like these together with only one girl between them, one of them's bound to be rubbed raw and find himself set off."
Cry Me a River contains Mr. Pearson's signature zany humor, such as Monroe, the narrator's female mongrel, an extravagantly flatulent and vaporous creature that prefers to dine on rotten food from the dumpster, and Ellis, the town drunk who aspires to be a cop. However, the novel is darker and more serious than the author's previous offerings.
Although Cry Me a River is entertaining, I have a quibble with this work: its denouement, although plausible, is too pat. The author concocts an easy, convenient way to bring the story to a close. And the final chapter is anticlimactic. But not to worry; anything by T. R. Pearson is worth your time.
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Cry Me A River eBook TR Pearson Reviews
There may be a good story here, but I lost track of it. Two problems
1. Multiple long flashbacks. Maybe there were some flashbacks that jumped from other flashbacks -- I couldn't keep track. So now, at about 20% of the way through the book I've lost track of which murder we're working on and which murders are the flashbacks.
2. The setting is a small town in the south; the writing style is sort-of dialect and sort-of just long confusing sentences. I had to go back too many times and re-read sentences to figure out what the author was trying to say.
Mysteries are supposed to be puzzles, but the structure of this book was too much of a puzzle for me to get a handle on the puzzle of the mystery.
I got this book as a free download. I feel like I was overcharged.
My rule on books is to read the first 20%. The if I'm lost and find that I don't care about the plot or the characters, I delete it off of the and try the next book. That's where this one is going.
I enjoyed this book, but adapting to the unique way of talking in the western Virginia mountains took a little work although I've spent time in that area myself. This isn't Pearson's best work, but it's worth a read. I'd say that it's better than Red Scare but not as good as Jerusalem Gap.
Could not get into the book. Finally just totally deleted from my world.
T.R. Pearson is a funny man and an excellent author. He wanders around a bit, like his characters do and that adds to the fun.
This was a good book. The voice of the narrator took some getting used to, but once I got used to it, it read very well. There was pretty good character development, and it was realistic enough to not seem too "pie in the sky".
Theoretically, this is a mystery or a police procedural. The necessary plot can be diagrammed as a basic sentence. The beauty of the book, and it is beautiful, is the writing, the consistent voice. If you want action, red herrings, daring dos, read a different mystery. If you like meandering Southern writing with wry observations of humankind, read Pearson.
Pearson is an acquired taste that will have you smiling and laughing as you read, provided that you enjoy his extended sentences, parenthetical asides, and narrative writing with little dialogue. He writes about small Southern towns where everyone knows each other, or thinks they do. Humor, violence, passion, compassion, you name it are all found in his exquisite observations about human nature at its best and worst. This is his sixth novel and is a murder mystery, unconventionally rendered but with an impact nonetheless. Read it first if you wish, but do not miss his first three novels,a trilogy starting with A Short History of a Small Place. They are masterpieces of humorous, but meaningful, fiction.
On page 2 of Cry Me a River, T. R. Pearson's sixth novel, the narrator, a policeman, writes of his small town in eastern Virginia near Roanoke "Our tragic episode [suggests] that we were, after all, under the surface of things, a community of passionate people who sometimes slaughtered each other for love." The "tragic episode" refers to the murder of two men, a suicide, and the downfall of a femme fatale who is at the heart of the conflict.
When the narrator's friend, a fellow police officer, is murdered, police have no clue who did the deed, except for a Polaroid photo of a nude woman, tucked into a fold of the murdered man's wallet; a suspicious person who has been severely beaten; and a person of interest seen driving a sizable yellow Cadillac sedan.
A French phrase sums up the truth of the case "Cherchez la femme" ("look for the woman"). The narrator says the woman in question "seemed to have a fairly mystical effect. She occupied a middle ground between belle and slattern, between proper women and sluts. She didn't attempt to disguise her itch and was hardly ashamed of indulging her urges." Her magical allure threw a hypnotic spell upon men. It's no surprise, then, when "you get three boys [young men] like these together with only one girl between them, one of them's bound to be rubbed raw and find himself set off."
Cry Me a River contains Mr. Pearson's signature zany humor, such as Monroe, the narrator's female mongrel, an extravagantly flatulent and vaporous creature that prefers to dine on rotten food from the dumpster, and Ellis, the town drunk who aspires to be a cop. However, the novel is darker and more serious than the author's previous offerings.
Although Cry Me a River is entertaining, I have a quibble with this work its denouement, although plausible, is too pat. The author concocts an easy, convenient way to bring the story to a close. And the final chapter is anticlimactic. But not to worry; anything by T. R. Pearson is worth your time.
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