![]() Everyone accepts this as normal, and they speak to the old man as though the dog was real. One such is an old gentleman who walks an invisible dog and gets paid for it. He talks about some of the characters who inhabit this hot, steamy Savannah. His conversations with the journalist are so entertaining if I was in a room with this man, I’d be hanging on every word. JIM WILLIAMS, the accused man, is wealthy, lives in a fantastic house filled with wonderful furniture and fittings. The book is built around a murder and the court case that follows, but in a way, that is just the backdrop for so much more. I felt enclosed in a semi-tropical terrarium, sealed off from a world that suddenly seemed a thousand miles away.” “It had just rained the air was hot and steamy. An old, beautiful, city where the inhabitants feel insulated from the rest of America, and they like things just the way they are. Sometimes, you hear about a place being almost a character in a book, and that’s how it is with this one. I read and re-read various pages, trying to fathom how the author made it so atmospheric. ![]() I felt as though I was there I could see and hear and smell everything. ![]() And before I say anything else let me talk about Savannah. ![]() The story is told in the first person by a New York journalist who is spending some time in Savannah. The pace, the shape, the characters, the dialogue, the prose. Everything about it is perfect, for me anyway. A non-fiction book that reads like a novel.
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