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Dolph's Team
Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson’s 'Dolph’s Team' is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of 'Lonesome Dove'. Dolph’s crew doesn’t always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. As Dolph says, “once you give up decency and honesty,” you’re on your own, and all of the beer-guzzling and bull-shooting won’t protect his team from the harsh reality of modern Texas.
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2011
About the author
Jim Sanderson
19 books8 followersI have always been nervous about claiming to be a writer. I can't depend upon writing to eat. So to eat, I teach. Students sometimes ask me if I am a "famous arthur." I know that I am not a famous arthur.
I have collected a lot labels. I started out as a short story writer, so I have three collections of short fiction. I also started writing essays because I thought that they were easy. So I have an essay collection. I was sort of a "shade tree" sociologist in this collection.
I won a contest for a literary novel about the southwestern U.S. When the novel came out, my editor listed it as a mystery. So I started writing mysteries and have a mystery series with the same characters running around in them. Brash Books as republished three of them. I like being a republished writer.
I wrote a historical novel, which had been bubbling around in my head since I was in the fourth grade. The novel could also be a Western.
I think that I can claim that I am a Texas writer. And I don't mind being labelled a Texas writer. Mostly, because if you draw a line from Lubbock to Beaumont, I've written about parts of Texas south of that line.
One critic said that I write "grit lit.," and put me in some good company. Someone said that I wrote southwestern neo-noir.
So check out a few of my books and label me as you like. I'll probably welcome the label. However, I know that I am not a "famous arthur."
I have collected a lot labels. I started out as a short story writer, so I have three collections of short fiction. I also started writing essays because I thought that they were easy. So I have an essay collection. I was sort of a "shade tree" sociologist in this collection.
I won a contest for a literary novel about the southwestern U.S. When the novel came out, my editor listed it as a mystery. So I started writing mysteries and have a mystery series with the same characters running around in them. Brash Books as republished three of them. I like being a republished writer.
I wrote a historical novel, which had been bubbling around in my head since I was in the fourth grade. The novel could also be a Western.
I think that I can claim that I am a Texas writer. And I don't mind being labelled a Texas writer. Mostly, because if you draw a line from Lubbock to Beaumont, I've written about parts of Texas south of that line.
One critic said that I write "grit lit.," and put me in some good company. Someone said that I wrote southwestern neo-noir.
So check out a few of my books and label me as you like. I'll probably welcome the label. However, I know that I am not a "famous arthur."
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February 25, 2020
A novel with characters you feel like you know.
This book makes you feel Texas from San Antonio to the oil fields of Odesssa in West Texas. You feel the bond that exisists between Dolph Martinez, Pepper, Pooter and Walter and their women and the connections they carry both present,past and future to the land, those who who are gone and to an uncertain future.
This book makes you feel Texas from San Antonio to the oil fields of Odesssa in West Texas. You feel the bond that exisists between Dolph Martinez, Pepper, Pooter and Walter and their women and the connections they carry both present,past and future to the land, those who who are gone and to an uncertain future.
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