"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher'...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
In the tradition of Hammett, Chandler and the other private-eye creators of the 1930's comes "The Godwulf Manuscript" by Robert B. Parker ...
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
Last year in "Early Autumn," Spenser made a man of a 15-year-old boy vicitimized by his affectless parents. "Ceremony" seems an alterna...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
Parker must have learned a good deal from "Godwulf"; his new book is more deft, smoother and sharper in characterization. Where "Godwulf...
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Critical Essay by Robin Winks
Robert Parker is perhaps the best of [the writers attempting to replace Chandler]…. [Promised Land] shows him gaining mastery over his material all of the time. T...
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Critical Essay by Agate Nesaule Krouse and Margot Peters
Robert B. Parker has created Spenser, a Marlowe-like private eye who drinks a lot and makes tasty omelets, salad dressings, and women. In The ...
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Critical Essay by Robin Winks
The Judas Goat is not [Robert Parker's] best book, but it is very good. Parker is one of those authors who … are always being compared with Chandler and Ro...
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Critical Essay by H.r.f. Keating
[A] literary strain has been present more or less in all [Robert Parker's] novels, even in Mortal Stakes which has a baseball setting (Parker is an avid sports...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
Robert B. Parker has written five books starring Spenser, the tough Boston operator, a one-man army. In his new book, "Wilderness" …, a differ...
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Critical Essay by David Geherin
It should come as no surprise to a reader of The Godwulf Manuscript (1974) to discover striking similarities between it and the novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Cha...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
In "Early Autumn," by Robert B. Parker, the private eye has come a long way from the dissolute days when he was a hell-raising, hard-drinking womanizer...
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"High Profile" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 290 pages, $24.95) _ Robert B. Parker: Jesse Stone, police chief in the mythical harbor town of Paradise, Mass., becomes the center of unwanted attention when a ...
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Jesse Stone is police chief of a small New England coastal town where mostly nothing happens.Stuck in Paradise, Mass., Stone is just about bored to death, which gives him ample time to brood about ...
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Critical Essay by Newgate Callendar
Plot hangs on absurdities in Robert Parker's new Jesse Stone novel, but still good read
