Ginger’s waiting for the seriously intoxicated “doctor” to show up and continue the “lesson” when she spots John, a kindred soul of the grifter persuasion. Destiny calls when John stumbles in to a “sex education” course in another county.Ī voluptuous woman named Ginger is doing illustrations on a blackboard, information much appreciated by a crowd of horny farmers, who give her their rapt attention. In a rage, John kills a litter of puppies belonging to the widow’s children. But the steely-eyed widow knows a liar when she sees one and sends him on his way. The Listener takes us to the Deep South of the 1930’s.Ī charming grifter, John Pearly, a bible salesman with the face of a choirboy and the soul of a snake intends to fleece a widow and her children. Whether involving the supernatural, an alien invasion or the exotic criminal world navigated by 18 th Century New York detective Matthew Corbett, The Listener, like all Robert McCammon novels, offers detailed settings and lots of characters in a good story.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |