Continues the acclaimed account of Southern eccentrics that began in Night People, with a colorful collection of righteous New Orleans misfits--including televangelists, escaped convicts, vengeful feminists, and disgraced clergymen.
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From Publishers Weekly
If an author's ability to lay an indelible stamp on a particular time and place is any measure of merit, then Gifford deserves applause. The latest work by the author of Wild at Heart returns to the locale he's making increasingly his own--a sultry, sleazy Big Easy fueled by cheap bourbon and lit by the late-night glare of TV screens. Even the bit players in this teeming cast of hookers, cons and wildeyed street preachers rejoice in names like Wilbur "Damfino" Nougat or Coco Navajoa. As usual, Gifford's narrative structure sprawls as picturesquely as the French Quarter itself: a series of loosely connected vignettes bordering on the grotesque rather than a unified story line. Continuities of plot or character threaten to develop only to be interrupted by sudden swerves and flashes of random violence. The dominant theme of these lurid postcards from the bayou--the violence men do to women, and their brutal comeuppance at the hands of their victims--is keenly evoked by Marble Lesson, a visionary avenger in the Lorena Bobbit mode. Gifford's admirers will feast on this tangy jambalaya of assorted sins, while the unconverted may find that a little of his postmodern voodoo goes a long way.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Religion and violence form an unholy alliance in this broad, black satire of fanaticism. The first section involves a disgraced black minister who attempts to assassinate a racist politician-a prophetess/televangelist indicted for felonious necromancy -and escaped convicts of different races who find a common ground in their hatred. The second section concerns the doings of the Mary Mother of God Rape Crisis Center and its band of feminist vigilantes who take revenge on men accused of sexual violence. Gifford (Night People, LJ 9/1/92) packs a lot into this brief novel, too much perhaps. For in the end, it feels sketchy and episodic, too short to support fully the weight of its many characters and incidents. Nonetheless, the author's acerbic wit and high spirits make it a worthwhile purchase for most public libraries.
--Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Ahhh, Barry Gifford, a wild and imaginative author, and quite the novelist. This book is full of backwards humor, and sexual and violent fetishes. The book boasts fast characters, extreme ideas, and a wide array of names. Gifford intertwines several characters on a continuous chase, that leaves most dead due to some (i imagine) beautiful women feminist extremes, and hyperbolized bible verse quoting. A few characters from other books appear. And i am so satisfied to say another one of my favorite novels is by Barry Gifford.
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