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Originally Posted by Historybuff
As long as we are talking about Yates, I enjoyed his book Of Death and Time, mostly about Indy racing in '55 (with a little bit of James Dean's death thrown in,)
until at the end of the book I realized that he had said at the outset that a fictional reporter was going to be employed throughout. So that meant that every quote in the book from race drivers and such didn't happen because if the reporter didn't exist there was no witness to what each person quoted said. I used a few paragraphs done in a similar fly-on-the-wall style to set the opening scene in my book but the chapters that follow employ real quotes wherever possible. So while a Yates on Shelby book would be fun to read and very flamboyant , I don't want to read it if that damn fictional reporter comes back.
(And what section of the library does the librarian put such a book, in fiction or non-fiction?)
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Actually, in our local library (which happens to be in Lockport, NY....Yate's home town) they have it in the "Local Authors" section (along with Joyce Carol Oates and Bevla Lockwood) AND in the "sports" section. I read it and enjoyed it but took it with a grain of salt as it is a "docudrama" and not a straight historical tome.