The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve - 13, Sept 2024
13th September 2024 Hello out there, Welcome back. I’ve long admired the late Robert B. Parker and was even more drawn to his books when I began my own author journey eleven years ago. I’ve emulated two hallmarks of his writing – short chapters that are dialogue-driven. Parker is best known as the prolific author of bestselling crime novels separately featuring the protagonists Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randell. This past weekend, I re-read Parker’s 1983 novel Love and Glory , a departure from most of his other works because it is, in fact, a love story, and here are a few things I rediscovered. The novel is set in the 1950s and 1960s when I was growing up, and the protagonist, like me, went to college intending to be a writer before life, like me, took him far away from that destination. The protagonist “Boone or Boonie” loved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic 1925 book “The Great Gatsby ” and, no lie, that book is near the top of my upcoming vacation to-be-read stack. The ...