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Book Town by Paul Combs -A Book Review
A big story in volume 3 of The Last Word series.
“Within every artist, there’s a child emptying a box of crayons onto the floor, searching for just the right color to draw the sky…As artists, we strive to preserve this playfulness throughout the gravity of the enterprise.”- Rick Rubin — The Creative Act.
Author of Book Town Paul Combs must have held both attributes mentioned above, playfulness and gravity, in hand and mind when composing this third book in his The Last Word series.
In Comb’s previous volumes, Writer in Residence and the inaugural The Last Word, the author draws together a diverse cast of characters, making them a most unlikely group of family and friends, colleagues, and competitors.
The main character from book one, The Last Word, and book two, Writer in Residence, is Salvatore (Sal) Terranova. A former mafia jewel thief and all-around enterprising Wise Guy, Sal decides his future lies in getting out and living straight — well, as straight as a lifelong criminal dodging the law can go.
Sal facilitates this by moving from New Jersey to Texas. Along the way, Terranova reconnects with a cousin, Camden Templeton…
