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Book Review

The Crimson Bears, Part I

THE COLLIDESCOPE, August 7, 2022

Reviewed by George Salis

From “The Heart’s-Blood of Story: An Unfinished Interview with Tom La Farge”

Reading and travel — twin vectors of escape — have formed me as a writer by exciting a love of strangeness and an impatience with exclusive concepts (adult/child, male/female, human/animal) and proprietary domains (realism/fantasy, serious fiction/genre fiction). I have always written to readers as a reader.

My first book, the novel The Crimson Bears, grew out of a bedtime story I was telling my son Paul. It is rooted in my love of foreign cities and of animal stories, to both of which I was introduced very young by my father. He took me to Europe for three years when I was two, in 1949, and his farm in Rhode Island offered me a pool full of frogs and a library full of illustrated books…. READ MORE