Police efforts are minimal after a killer attacks young women in Seattle, abandoning their bodies in the weeds, and in the end, only the street people may care enough to stop the murderer. By the author of The Sons of Noah.
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From Publishers Weekly
World Fantasy Award-winner Cady's (The Sons of Noah and Other Stories) disappointing horror novel about street people battling a serial killer of young women in Seattle is clearly, if loosely, based on that city's real-life Green River killings. The unnamed narrator (a well-to-do former actor) and four of his companions (including a Vietnam vet and an ex-nun), who live in an abandoned church called "The Sanctuary," are five of fiction's most unlikely street people. In order to track the murderer, for example, the narrator is somehow able to transform himself into any identity he chooses, including those of a 58-year-old Yankee dowager and a black jazz musician. Even if Cady is making use of the conventions of the antinovel in order to present characters that readers won't easily identify with and a "reality" that need only approximate the real, the narrator's many forays into deep-cover roles are a distractingly unconvincing element. The narrator's almost sing-song street-talk narration ventures into overblown didacticism at times, too. By the time the killer has a final face-off with the Sanctuary dwellers, readers will be checking their watches, not their pulses.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
A serial killer is stalking young women in Seattle. When two girls from the neighborhood disappear, a group of street people, all heroic misfits led by a former actor, band together to flush out the murderer. As the eyes and ears of the street, the group soon fixes on a suspect. The ex-actor cleverly impersonates different characters to entrap the killer, and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues. Cady's novel is a gem. Atmospheric, poetic, and at times almost mystical, it movingly depicts the street people as saviors, providing a unique twist to the conventional suspense novel without sacrificing any heart-stopping thrills. A worthwhile addition to both general fiction and mystery collections; highly recommended.
Eric W. Johnson, Teikyo Post Univ. Lib., Waterbury, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Eric W. Johnson, Teikyo Post Univ. Lib., Waterbury, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Street is a prose poem about a disparate group of homeless, including a televsion actor, an ex-nun, a sword wielding son of Virginia aristocrats, a Vietnam vet whose only public pronouncements are "Symptomatic Nerve Gas!" and "Felony Assualt!", and a poet who band together to battle a mass murderer.
Corpses decorated with black ribbons have been turning up all over Seattle. Until now, it has been a police matter. The unlikely quintet, galvanized by the disappearance of a young girl they know, discern the murderer's identity and attempt to bring him to heel, triggering a nerve jangling game of cat and mouse. The outcome remains uncertain until the final page. Cady's language is quirky and beautiful, his characters vivid and well-drawn. The Street of the title comes to life within these pages, as much a character as any of the colorful human protagonists. If you've never read Cady before, this is a good one to start with, virtually ensuring that you'll go on to sample the rest of his outstanding work.
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