Wignall shows us beauty even in violent death weaving the threads of character into a philosophical and introspective fabric of a man who is fully cognizant that he is damaged goods.
The moral question is the Big One: Can good ever arise out of evil? Can just ends evolve from foul means? “People Die“ leaves the reader who lives complacently by simple rules of right and wrong in a moral stew, yet with hope for a killer who fails to be heartless.

“People Die“ is one of the most lyrical novel about killing that I've ever read. I rank it equal to Robert Olmstead's “Far Bright Star.“

William “JJ“ Hoffman is no ordinary assassin. Instead, due to Wignall's prose and characterization, we see the human being rather than the monster we normally would expect to see in a person who earns his living ending other people's lives.

Listen to the audiobook brilliantly performed by Johanna Ward. Lyrical stream of conscious story of the love affair between a poor Parisian dancer and her wealthy lover, Max. In style, echoing the intimacy of Virginia Woolf's “Mrs. Dalloway.“

Overwhelming talent allows Collette to completely take over the reader's mind and repossess it with the mind of Renee, a Parisian dance hall girl. Her heart has been frozen to love's warmth by a disastrous marriage. Published in 1910, this feminist novel extols the single life for women, regardless of its cost in loneliness and heartbreak. Renee is an honest--always brutally so to herself--self-reliant woman of courage, exceptional for her Age.

This is no John Wayne western. Cowboy noir has arrived. DeWitt is able to create sympathy for dim bulb Eli and hair-raising horror for too wily for his own good Charlie in this picaresque/psycho-drama destined to become a cult classic.. Eli Sisters is a cross between Forrest Gump and a questioning Socrates on horseback, Smith and Wesson at his side, a seemingly simple-minded anti-hero who leads an examined life.

Not your John Wayne western. A new genre. I call it “western noir.“
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