I have such a soft spot for John Nichols because he writes so well about the towns of Northern New Mexico. This novel about a writer living in the southwest (gee, just like John Nichols) is a little tiresome, but very funny and insightful. (Kind of like all his books.)
This book has its own quirky sort of attraction, I s'pose. Makes you wish you could have hung out in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Dunno why I felt like I had to finish this. Author loyalty, maybe. I much prefer his longer, fully developed novels like The Milagro Beanfield War.
"An albatross around his neck" John Nichols called his 1974 novel The Milagro Beanfield War in an afterword to the book's 1994 anniversary edition, because he felt that particularly after Milagro had, over multiple obstacles, been made into a 1988 movie directed by Robert Redford, it had eclipsed mu...
Entertaining, but forgettable.
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