Windwhistle Bone Richard Trainor Author

Windwhistle Bone Richard Trainor Author
Categories: Soups, Noodle
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
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Richard Trainor’s Windwhistle Bone is a novel of time and place as we follow the protagonist, Ram Le Doir, on a journey tracing his rise as a celebrated poet and reporter, which comes to a tragic conclusion as he is unlocking a series of dangerous stories that nearly costs him his life, and destroys his marriage and career. Ram’s fall and eventual redemption concern the double murder of his wife, actress Vera Dubeck, and her lover. Trainor’s prose was cited by the late Luther Nichols, Doubleday’s former West Coast Bureau Chief, as reminiscent of Faulkner (the Snopes-like nature of the Le Doirs), Thomas Wolfe, J. P. Dunleavy (the scapegrace of Ram), Dylan Thomas, and Bukowski. There’s a great California feel to your novel which is one of the finest first novels I have ever read. Nichols gave testimony for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books during the obscenity trial held over Allen Ginsburg’s poem, Howl, in 1960.