![]() ![]() “Chinaman’s Chance,” published in 1978 (hence the poorly aged title), is the perfect gateway Thomas novel - an almost Altman-esque, multi-perspective tale of a con game run by a pair of hyper-bright orphan outcasts, Artie Wu and Quincy Durant. ![]() Pretty soon, Thomas was my favorite living novelist.” “And then I found ‘ Chinaman’s Chance’ in this dogeared stack of mass-market paperbacks in the basement, took it upstairs and read it in a couple of sittings. “I’d never heard of him before,” Greenwald told me. That’s where Andy Greenwald, the writer-producer of USA’s excellent limited series, “ Briarpatch,” whose finale airs Monday, discovered Ross Thomas while visiting his parents in Philadelphia. More often than not, they are hidden away in our basements in large battered cardboard boxes that almost everybody has forgotten were even down there. The best books aren’t always prominently displayed on the bestseller shelves of our libraries and bookstores or featured in university literature courses. ![]()
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