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| Original Title: | A Feast of Snakes |
| ISBN: | 0684842483 (ISBN13: 9780684842486) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Harry Crews
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 4.01 | 3762 Users | 378 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Feast of Snakes |
| Author | : | Harry Crews |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | January 7th 1998 by Touchstone (first published 1976) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Gothic. Southern Gothic. American. Southern. Horror. Novels |
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From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".Rating About Books A Feast of Snakes
Ratings: 4.01 From 3762 Users | 378 ReviewsAssess About Books A Feast of Snakes
I am now officially a Harry Crews fan.This novel is mad, seductive and trashy in the best way. The characters are ghoulish, cheerleaders & all. The snakes play an incredible role. They're worshipped, taunted, revered, skinned & ingested - I loved their omnipotent presence.Joe Lon, The protagonist wants to wail, grow in violence, he's all fists and need and his coiled malice erupts to a fantastic conclusion. There is much to admire here.Not bad, I guess for a "hillbilly noir," po' white trash turning berserk and homicidal in the Deep South. But somehow I expected more. I mean, the premise is fantastic . . . Every year in the little town of Mystic, Georgia (high school football team "the Rattlers"), there is a "Rattler Day," which features the crowning of a high school girl as "Miss Rattler," followed by her ritual torching of a huge snake effigy, followed in turn by a pit bull battle. Then, the next day, the real fun: hundreds
Three audiences I will address:1) If you're familiar with this title, and know what you're getting into........go for it; it's a ruckus ride- pretty much what you expect it'll be based on what you know is coming. You're in for some classic Crews here.2) If you stumbled across it because you liked A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, you're gonna like this for a whole different reason, but you at least can "get" where he came up with all this whiskey fueled, venom laden, violence energized,
In one of his essays collected in Blood and Grits Harry Crews explains that there came a time when he was trying to write fiction that he realized, if he was going to be any good at his craft, that he had to stop pretending to be someone he wasn't and start writing about what he knew. Embrace his roots. There was plenty that Crews wished he had never experienced, but he didn't get to pick whether or not he grew up poor in Bacon County, Georgia. Because he decided to be true to his heritage, we
A bunch of crazy folks (including Joe Lon,our unlikeable moonshine selling protagonist) in Mystic, Georgia are gearing up for the annual snake round up. Just about everything you don't want to read about from brutal dog fighting to dismemberment , in one (thankfully) short book. On The Southern Literary Trail -catch up.
Not bad, I guess for a "hillbilly noir," po' white trash turning berserk and homicidal in the Deep South. But somehow I expected more. I mean, the premise is fantastic . . . Every year in the little town of Mystic, Georgia (high school football team "the Rattlers"), there is a "Rattler Day," which features the crowning of a high school girl as "Miss Rattler," followed by her ritual torching of a huge snake effigy, followed in turn by a pit bull battle. Then, the next day, the real fun: hundreds
Sumbitch, that was violent and crazy. Extra point for creative concept. A Classic!
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