Wiley Cash
Autor/a de A Land More Kind than Home
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: photo by Tiffany B. Davis
Obres de Wiley Cash
Anthology of appalachian writers 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Cash, Wiley
- Data de naixement
- 1977-09-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- North Carolina, USA
- Llocs de residència
- West Virginia, USA
- Educació
- University of North Carolina at Asheville (BA - Literature)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MA - English)
University of Louisiana, Lafayette (PhD - English) - Professions
- professor
- Organitzacions
- Southern New Hampshire University (professor)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 2,610
- Popularitat
- #9,844
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 248
- ISBN
- 91
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 6
I love the idea of the confrontation building to a climax at Busch Stadium in St. Louis as McGwire and Sosa battle for the home run record as the season winds down, but the execution was disappointing. The protagonists are hardly settled into their seats before they get shown on the jumbotron, and before you know it psychopathic killer has stupidly attacked his target in the men's room and been apprehended and all danger is over. Seriously, he hunts him halfway across the country only to attack him in a jam packed baseball stadium as soon as he sees him? No stalking? No chase? No suspense! That could have been such a better scene; instead it felt nearly wasted.
He wasn't ever going to recover any stolen hillbilly mafia money that way. It is suggested that psychopathic killer had personal reasons at play, stemming from a minor league beaning incident that may have ended his playing career, but that angle needed considerably more exploration than it received.… (més)