Iron Horse Literary Review
Spring 2003 Book Reviews
Free Bird
Greg Garrett. New York: Kensington, 2002. $23.00
If Free Bird were a new song (not the one by Lynyrd Skynyrd), then when the music started, we would all get up to dance and request it again and again—even more than “Sweet Home Alabama” (yes, the one by Lynyrd Skynyrd). Instead, Free Bird is a poignant, humorous rock-rolling story of Clay Foster’s journey of grief. At one time Clay was a successful Washington, D.C., attorney with a major corporation. He had a beautiful wife. . .
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir Sebastian Haffner. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. $24.00 The original German title of Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner’s remarkable memoir, is Geschichte eines Deutschen—roughly translated as “One German’s Story” or, perhaps, “The History of an Individual German.” The German title may be more apt than the English, but nonetheless, this amazing book is more than just a simple story of one man’s life and experiences during the years leading up to the Third Reich. It is perhaps the most cogent, relevant document we have on German. . . |
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The Tentmaker Clay Reynolds. New York: Berkley Books, 2003. $14.00 With his latest release from Berkley Books, Clay Reynolds moves into what is, for him, a new genre—western comedy. A rollicking tale of romance and misadventure reminiscent of Cat Ballou and Blazing Saddles, The Tentmaker may well turn out to be the most popular novel this author of serious western dramas has produced since his Pulitzer Prize nominee, Franklin’s Crossing. In The Tentmaker, Reynolds relates the story of the accidental founding of Hoolian, Texas. Like a number. . . |
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