I and Claudie (Double Mountain Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)"Treasure depends." This lapidary phrase (a treasure in itself) comes from one of the short stories in I and Claudie written by the unknown (to me) Dillon Anderson, who ought to become instantly famous for this little jewel alone.
The small joys of a 1940's short story collection are a tough sale, but this one is worth the bandwidth. See, there's these two guys, Clint Hightower and Claudie Hughes (the titular I and Claudie) who flee legal entanglements in late 1940's New Orleans and go to Texas, where they get into the mildest, sweetest, tenderest scrapes ever, all narrated with crooked innocence by Clint himself.
My favorite two stories are "The Auction" and "Fixing Windmills" (these titles hint at the gentleness of their adventures). In the first one, Clint utterly fails to be an auctioneer, and in the second one, no windmills are fixed at all. The introduction to the 1999 edition points out that the key to writing about rascals is to have them never win, which is true of Clint and Claudie. However, in this book, the right side still always wins, and, now, in the year of Oh!Lord! 2006 there's something charmingly prelapsarian about having the good guys triumph.
I convey my highest recommendations.


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