Archive for November 3, 2009
HAIKU by Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss has done it again. He has captured life on the streets – - the homeless, the addicted, the dispossessed, the mentally ill – and has made these disenfranchised people the true heroes of the world. Vachss’s vision is a unique one, with a theme that is pervasive throughout his books. He reframes miscreants into heros and shows real evil where one least expects to find it – - in the ordinary citizen parading as Mr. Good or Mr. Show-off. It is those that we turn away from or that we find invisible or repulsive that Mr. Vachss turns into the super-heroes or saviors of the day. He writes about a cultural underground that many of us have never been privy to, an underground that has its own codes of morality and rule of law, where cities exist in tunnels underneath slums and cultures form based on an unspoken law belonging only to the dispossessed. HAIKU, Vachss’s newest book fits nicely into his thematic repertoire.
November 3, 2009
Tags: Contemporary, Street Life Posted in: Contemporary, New York City 
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