Cold in July (2014) - September 30, 2014

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by StonesEGF

Has anyone read the book? How does it compare with the novels of, say, someone like Jim Thompson?

I've read Joe R. Lansdale's Cold in July several times, along with several other books from this author. Lansdale is a Texas writer who comes across like a gritty blend of William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, Mickey Spillane, Sam Peckinpah, and Quentin Tarantino. His stories are generally crude, rude, and gruesome, but there's also an undercurrent of Southern Gothic and an idyllic rural backwoods aesthetic.