The novel 'So Many Doors' by Oakley Hall is a dark and intense tale set in the community of cat skinners during pre and post-World War II era. The story follows the tumultuous relationship between Vassilia (V) and Jack Ward, unfolding through the perspectives of multiple characters. The narrative delves into themes of fatal love, emotional torment, and self-destruction, leading to a tragic yet character-driven plot that grips readers from the very beginning. The writing style of the book is described as impressive for its pacing and urgency, with a touch of noir elements that create a gripping atmosphere throughout the story.
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The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon, who calls SO MANY DOORS "Beautiful, powerful, even masterful."
It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered - Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds, in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Oakley Hall, is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake. Unpublished for more than half a century, So Many Doors is Hall's masterpiece, an excoriating vision of human nature at its most brutal, and one of the most powerful books you will ever read.
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