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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
moody, enthralling psychological thriller,
This review is from: Blue Lonesome (Paperback)
When an accomplished, experienced author tackles loneliness, frustration, chicanery and murder, you get something like Blue Lonesome. Jim Messenger is a lonely, bored San Francisco CPA, drifting through life. He observes a woman called Janet Mitchell at a cafe where he eats dinner every night. Messenger wonders about her and when she stops coming, he is idly moved to learn why. What Messenger discovers is that she has committed suicide.Gradually, he becomes more and more obsessed with learning her story. His physical journey takes him several hundred miles east to the dried-up desert town of Beulah, Nevada. His emotional journey takes him much farther, and is not finished when the book ends. Beulah is a town of simmering desires, dusty secrets and vicious attitudes. It is also a town peopled with good citizens. Part of Pronzini's strength is his ability to create a place and characters that are in everyone's sight. Beulah could be any town. It could be yours.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
OH LONESOME BLUE,
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This review is from: Blue Lonesome (Paperback)
Okay. Here's the set-up:You are a lonely middle-aged CPA and you eat at the same places almost every day. You notice a sad looking woman, not a pretty one, mind you, just sad, and you identify with her because she is so obviously lonesome, just like our CPA. You get the nerve up to try and speak with her, and it doesn't work. She doesn't tell you her name or anything about her. You follow her home one night and find out her name is Janet Mitchell. You are obsessed with why she's so lonely. Soon she stops coming to the restaurant and you're worried. You go visit her apartment complex and speak to the oriental landlady. She tells you that the lady is dead, committing suicide in her bathtub. Now, would you even imagine pursuing this any further? Well, James Messenger, our hero does. Although I found the setup for this novel quite unbelievable, Pronzini manages to make it work with his wonderful prose and sense of characterizations. Needless to say, Messenger ends up in the lady's hometown of Beulah, Nevada, and finds out her real name, and learns that she had been accused of murdering her philandering husband AND her eight year old daughter. Messenger knows she didn't do it (how, you got me!). Soon, Messenger faces the expected town bullies and even the dead woman's sister. He takes a job on her ranch, and gets more and more involved with the lady and the townspeople. The book is short, moves along well, and the ending is quite a surprise, at least to me. It's not what I consider a great book, but if you can get past the ludicrous setup, you should enjoy it. RECOMMENDED.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great moody novel with dark atmosphere,
This review is from: Blue Lonesome (Paperback)
A great mystery in which you'll never guess what's going on until the end. I'd actually give it 4 and 1/2 stars. Nice to see a protagonist who's just an ordinary schmuck rather than a FBI agent, corporate super-lawyer, or CIA hit-man. Easy to empathize and root for the main character. I finished it in two sittings.
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