THIN MEN OF HADDAM
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Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for the Best Novel of 1973 by the Texas Institute of Letters and the award from the Southwestern Library Association for the novel of 1973 that "made the most significant and enjoyable contribution to an understanding of the Southwest."
"....a sympathetic and fairly subtle study of the intellectual who straddles the line between revolution and co-option (by virtue of his cleverness) into the ruling class." - Kirkus Reviews.
"Throughout the story, Smith beautifully evokes the Southwest. In rich flashbacks and interior monologues, he somehow makes this bleak landscape into a convincing correlative for his characters' gnawing despair." - Publishers Weekly.
"A serious, successful novel, rich in regional detail, with a carefully developed story line and believable characters." - Library Journal
"This introspective Western orchestrates a variety of conflicts into a composition with a distinctively original texture....C.W. Smith's technique has the impact of Claude Simon...who creates arresting amalgams of past, present, reverie, and locale. Can't do much better than that." -- New York Times.
"Surely one of the most gratifying experiences of good reading is its ability to bring us into contact with cultures not our immediate own. C.W. Smith, in this splendid first novel, offers us this kind of reward....Recommended." - Best Sellers.
"Thin Men of Haddam is remarkable in its sure hand in plotting, its management of diverse moods and character, its succinct, quotable lines of wisdom...its story-telling drive, its suspense...deserves to be widely read because of its sure touch and its relevancy..." - Western American Literature
Full texts of reviews (in .pdf files):Review from Dallas Morning News
Review from Library Journal
Review from Sunstone Review
Review from Publisher's Weekly
Review from Minnesota Daily
Review from Best Sellers
Review from Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Review from El Paso Times
Review from the New York TimesCitations and References to Thin Men of Haddam:
A Literary History of the American West
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