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A review by vikibarcs
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
1.0
"So few women could do anything."
Is a throw-away line on p267 that any reader might be tempted to skim over, because it doesn't suit the character of Fast Eddie that we have, after The Hustler and the first 266 pages of the Color of Money, have come to know so well.
Eddie's relationships with women in both books are weird, we never meet his mother so we don't know why he finds women so confusing and difficult, but it's never a driving force for the plot or motivations of Fast Eddie Felson.
No, that line is from the mouth of Walter Tevis. Walter Tevis who in his last few years of life left his family and in his confusion ran to New York, over came his drinking problem, and tried to write again.
Here's a fun fact: Tevis' first wife was also a writer. But she handled herself, no drinking problem, no runaways to Mexico, no mistress in NYC to help her overcome her crippling alcoholism and writer's block. I feel sorry for her. Because Tevis clearly didn't think very much about women, and he clearly didn't think very much before beginning to write this awful book.
Is a throw-away line on p267 that any reader might be tempted to skim over, because it doesn't suit the character of Fast Eddie that we have, after The Hustler and the first 266 pages of the Color of Money, have come to know so well.
Eddie's relationships with women in both books are weird, we never meet his mother so we don't know why he finds women so confusing and difficult, but it's never a driving force for the plot or motivations of Fast Eddie Felson.
No, that line is from the mouth of Walter Tevis. Walter Tevis who in his last few years of life left his family and in his confusion ran to New York, over came his drinking problem, and tried to write again.
Here's a fun fact: Tevis' first wife was also a writer. But she handled herself, no drinking problem, no runaways to Mexico, no mistress in NYC to help her overcome her crippling alcoholism and writer's block. I feel sorry for her. Because Tevis clearly didn't think very much about women, and he clearly didn't think very much before beginning to write this awful book.