Reviews for Treachery at Rock Point

The average rating for Treachery at Rock Point based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-11 00:00:00 Lawrence Rankin Will Sheer comes home after two years to learn everyone thought him dead. Scalped and killed by Indians the papers had said. He also found that his partner in the stage line, Ned Oakes, had a new partner, Lyle Danko, a gambler, who'd supposedly invested five grand for half. Turns out that wasn't exactly true. Ned owed Danko the monery in poker losses amd was coering Ned to tell him when the gold shipments were going out. Blackmail was also involved as Ned was carrying on with a young widow in the next town, cheating on his fiance Caroline Knight, the banker's daughter. But no one knows about the under the table deals but Ned and Danko. It doesn't take Will long to get his half back as Danko claims the five grand was never spent and he would gladly back out of the deal. Of coursde he still had that other deal with Ned. Will has to figure another way to get the gold out as the rail bridge had washed and gold was piling up in the bank. Too many shady men in town to not try the bank with that amount of gold, some seventy grand. Of course there's a snake in the grass. Decent novel.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-02 00:00:00 SCOTT OLSON As perplexing as it is captivating, Other Voices, Other Rooms is Capote's hallucinatory literary début, a Southern Gothic bildungsroman based partially on its writer's experience of growing up gay in rural Alabama. The novel wavers between the surreal and the familiar, the obvious and the mystifying; all the while, Capote's ornate language and labyrinthine syntax entrance his reader, inviting them to dwell in a consistently disturbing setting. The plot concerns thirteen-year-old Joel Knox's move after his mother's death to live with his father at Skully's Landing, a rotting mansion inhabited by eccentric figures on the outskirts of a small town. As a kind of subversion of the coming-of-age novel, though, neither the story nor the protagonist's character arc are all that important: Joel doesn't change over the course of the narrative so much as he changes how he feels about what he already is at its start. The novel is far more interested in sketching and sympathizing with different kinds of marginal existence, stressing their stagnancy, as well as critiquing American society for its contempt of Black and queer life. The ending reads as especially bleak, once one moves beyond the initial shock induced by its switch to the stream-of-consciousness mode.