Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Book 9: The Savage Season

I wrapped this last night. Very enjoyable. As always the enjoyable things from these books is Hap's internal monologue and the interplay between himself and Leonard.

Here's an abbreviated plot synopsis from wikipedia

Hap and Leonard are two Texan men who are down on their luck, both working low paying jobs well into their 40's. A former girlfriend of Hap's returns, involving the pair in a scheme to retrieve hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from a bank and then lost in a creek in the woods in an area which Hap knows quite well. She is involved with a small group of radical leftists who wish to use the money to fund their movement; Hap and Leonard just wish to have enough to retire somewhere pleasant. Her return, as well as her continued involvement with various movement, awakens dormant emotions in Hap, leading him to wonder whether he should have devoted more time to the ideals he felt in the '60's, and whether he had wasted his time in the interim on low-paying, go nowhere jobs.


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