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Books : Fiction : Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards : Authors A-Z : L : Lansdale, Joe R.
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Joe Lansdale, winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award and three Bram Stoker Awards, is up to his usual tricks in Rumble Tumble. Set in the Southern States, it's basically a crime story with a liberal dose of Lansdale's uniquely dry humour. Hap Collins is unsettled in his life. His home in Oklahoma has been destroyed by a tornado and he feels that he's becoming too old to be a night club bouncer. He must also face the decision whether to leave his lodgings with long-suffering friend Leonard and move in with his girlfriend, Brett.Brett comes with her own set of problems, though, not the least of which are an ex-husband (whom she has set fire to) and her wayward daughter, Tillie. Brett persuades Hap and Leonard to help rescue Tillie from her life of drugs and prostitution in Texas. On their way they pick up a string of odd characters. These include Herman, an ex-preacher and hit man who has turned his hand to selling prairie dogs to the Japanese, and Herman's brother, Red, a hard-nosed midget who joins the party together with Leonard's adopted son, an armadillo called Bob! In order to reach Tillie the motley crew finally take to the air before finding themselves up against the Bandito Supremes. --Pat Naylor
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Bill Roberts is not the brightest man in Texas, and neither are the two friends he persuades to rob the fire-cracker seller over the road. He needs the money. Welfare payments have stopped arriving, and his mother's corpse, out in the back bedroom, is beginning to really smell. The heist goes spectacularly wrong, leaving Bill with two dead friends, a face eaten by mosquitoes, and a rabid Texan police officer shouting "Cocksucker!" after every shot fired. When Bill finds refuge in a freakshow, his adventures are just beginning: more murder, a mysterious frozen effigy that exerts a mysterious hold over visitors, sex with scheming midgets...Joe Lansdale has produced another novel in a long line of Texan badland fictions. He takes a rest in this book from his Hap and Leonard characters, but this has the same sleazy scenarios, the same witty dialogue and effortless writing. These elements tumble out in a riot of politically incorrect scenes. This is high-class American pulp fiction, and not just because Lansdale's other job is as a martial arts expert (although it concentrates the mind). The freakshow's pin-heads and perpetually fighting Siamese twins, the kindly manager Joe Frost and his sexually ambiguous partner Gidget, are expertly realised figures in a mythic and hugely enjoyable landscape. --Roger Luckhurst
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Joe Lansdale, winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award and three Bram Stoker Awards, is up to his usual tricks in Rumble Tumble. Set in the Southern States, it's basically a crime story with a liberal dose of Lansdale's uniquely dry humour. Hap Collins is unsettled in his life. His home in Oklahoma has been destroyed by a tornado and he feels that he's becoming too old to be a night club bouncer. He must also face the decision whether to leave his lodgings with long-suffering friend Leonard and move in with his girlfriend, Brett.Brett comes with her own set of problems, though, not the least of which are an ex-husband (whom she has set fire to) and her wayward daughter, Tillie. Brett persuades Hap and Leonard to help rescue Tillie from her life of drugs and prostitution in Texas. On their way they pick up a string of odd characters. These include Herman, an ex-preacher and hit man who has turned his hand to selling prairie dogs to the Japanese, and Herman's brother, Red, a hard-nosed midget who joins the party together with Leonard's adopted son, an armadillo called Bob! In order to reach Tillie the motley crew finally take to the air before finding themselves up against the Bandito Supremes. --Pat Naylor
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