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Dr. Lamar Hale is a general practitioner and surgeon in the small town of Willnot - home to a variety of eccentrics. Lamar knows all the secrets and accepts everyone for who they are. When a gravesite containing a number of remains is discovered, the town and Lamar are unnerved. The return of Bobbly Lowndes from the Marines also is unsettling. Lamar has known him since he was a child. Then the FBI comes looking for Bobby.

While all these things are happening, Lamar goes about his daily business taking care of the people in the town and just living life with his partner Richard. Lamar's father was an author who hung around with many of the stars of the 50s and 60s and Lamar shares stories about them with Richard. I liked some of the stories about authors I grew up reading.

This was an engaging story but very literary and quite the opposite of action-packed. It was a thoughtful of about a year in Lamar and Richard's life. The beginning mystery of the discovered bodies was never resolved. Neither was Bobby's story.

Read this one for the language and descriptions and the relationships within the town and with Lamar.


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Willnot James Sallis 9781843446699 Books Reviews

I would not recommend this book. It seems so disjointed to me. I must be missing something. Maybe it would have been better if I had read it in one sitting.
A very satisfying cosy. I liked it a lot
You have to trust James Sallis before you start reading. You have to know that he'll give you what you need, when you need it, and not before. His prose is so sparse, but everything is there and not a word is wasted. Beautiful in just about every way. I will be thinking about Willnot for some time.
This is a very unique mystery--and I say that as someone who has read MANY of them. Lamar is a fascinating protagonist-- gay small town doctor, introspective and humble. The mystery itself is almost in the background as we get to know Lamar and the town of Willnot.
I SINCERELY hope that the author will consider another book with these characters. They are so so well-developed and real that I miss them now that the book is over.
James Sallis’s new book “Willnot” starts with a great bang, a bewildering mass grave is found near town that must be excavated. It’s impossible to tell just how many bodies have been found, who they were, and how they got there. Dr. Lamar Hale, the town's all purpose general practitioner, surgeon, becomes the point of view character of this novel.

We see small town rural life through Dr. Hale’s eyes. We learn of his interactions with many of the town’s residents, and we also learn of his personal life and his thoughts and background as many of his friends and patients wander in and out of the narrative of this story.

This is a wonderfully touching story, what probably could be called a love story of rural American life. Filled with eccentric characters, multiple intriguing subplots and a story that will grab the reader and just not let go.

This may be the best novel that Mr. Sallis has ever published.

Highly recommended. Five stars are just not enough.
Willnot by James Sallis 5+/5

It's been awhile since I've read any of Sallis's books. /sigh/ Silly me. There is a wonderful, mellow flow to his writing that, in a way, reminds me of Nabokov. Yes, but no. Sallis has a dead-center way of looking at life, and describing it in an off hand manner whose profundity just suddenly pops you in the back of the head. The reader is forced to go back and reread the last page or two just for the immediate pleasure of reliving those thoughts.

The plot is deceptively simple. Small town, hometown doctor, several bodies found in the woods, mysterious comings and goings all assemble and then.....disassemble. Readers that need definite resolutions to their stories will be somewhat disappointed, I believe. But, for the pleasure of the journey, it's totally worth it.

Highly recommended.
James Sallis books always contain beautiful, well-written language and this story is no different in that respect. Willnot grabs your attention from the very first page, with police investigating a recently discovered site with body parts littered about. At this point the reader might assume that he is in for a gripping murder mystery, however, that could not be further from the truth. Instead, the reader is subject to numerous scenes of the protagonist and his partner talking to or about their cat.

I really wanted to like this book because I have enjoyed most of Sallis' other works, however, not even Sallis' excellent prose could make up for the snail-speed of the plot.
Dr. Lamar Hale is a general practitioner and surgeon in the small town of Willnot - home to a variety of eccentrics. Lamar knows all the secrets and accepts everyone for who they are. When a gravesite containing a number of remains is discovered, the town and Lamar are unnerved. The return of Bobbly Lowndes from the Marines also is unsettling. Lamar has known him since he was a child. Then the FBI comes looking for Bobby.

While all these things are happening, Lamar goes about his daily business taking care of the people in the town and just living life with his partner Richard. Lamar's father was an author who hung around with many of the stars of the 50s and 60s and Lamar shares stories about them with Richard. I liked some of the stories about authors I grew up reading.

This was an engaging story but very literary and quite the opposite of action-packed. It was a thoughtful of about a year in Lamar and Richard's life. The beginning mystery of the discovered bodies was never resolved. Neither was Bobby's story.

Read this one for the language and descriptions and the relationships within the town and with Lamar.