It is perhaps Cook's prose and mood that keeps one reading as much as the compelling struggle of these two characters. It does not eat up pages of hemming and hawing. Just like the heated bedroom scenes, the internal dialogue is short and effective.
In fact, much of the narrative is moved by character dialogue, though there is internal dialogue. Her intuition is spot-on- Cook's a natural. The prose is as much jazz as Rufus' music.
She's got style! Cook's style is smooth, modern spare, and altogether riveting. A couple more trips to the rock-candy mountain, and he'd have been the one diving out the window instead of Ronnie the Rube Feldon." "He hated to admit it, but Garret saved his life when he and his posse hit the drug house. This becomes easier as more of the story is unraveled and the back stories of these characters is revealed. You have to restrain yourself from judging or disdaining these characters, but by the end of the book, you realize theirs is just a human struggle, a struggle for their lives and loves, as deserving an ear as much as anyone. Reading these parts is an exercise in restraint. It's all very moody.Īt points, it's hard to feel sympathy for these characters who are more responsible than anyone for the quagmire of their lives and sometimes find it difficult to take the steps necessary to help themselves or don't consider those steps altogether. Every time starring couple Rufus and Claire get a happy moment, it's spoiled by melancholy, despair, fatalism- life. Last Train to Memphis is an affecting novel that captures the unstable, sometimes depressive nature of drug addiction: the bickering, the wild swings between a giddy, carefree existence and a lowering depression.
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