Michael McDowell's Blackwater VI: Rain [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael McDowell (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380827921
• ISBN-13: 978-0380827923
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,163,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice closure to this well-crafted, bizarre series.., February 8, 2006

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lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michael McDowell's Blackwater VI: Rain (Mass Market Paperback)

The last chapter of the Blackwater series has the town of Perdido, Alabama all grown up and our favorite characters, both the human and humanoid, are either simply growing older or moving away ... or dying. The story wraps nicely as it began six installments earlier, with a flood. And the goblins and swamp monsters are once again reclaimed by the river. Believable? <giggles>

I suppose what I like best about the Blackwater series is its fine characterizations and well-structured story. Now that I've finished the series I am sorry to see it end.


Bottom line: it is beyond me why the Blackwater series is out of print. Overall a fun, creepy and absorbing piece of American folklore.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Final chapter of a creature who rises from water to become h, May 26, 2003

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This review is from: Michael McDowell's Blackwater VI: Rain (Mass Market Paperback)

Oscar meets the dark, as does Queenie. Lilah, Billy & Frances' normal daughter, becomes attached to Miriam and cannot be separated from her. To everyone's absolute surprise, Miriam marries Malcolm. Little Tommy, Lucille's boy raised on the farm by Lucille and Grace, comes of age, and plays an unsuspecting part in the eventual death of Elinor Caskey and her legacy of fear, and inadvertently returns the floods to Perdido, in spite of the levee.
Don't miss this series, you will have to find them in the used book stores but they are worth the search. Creepy, languid tales of the old south told in such flowing prose that you feel the heat and humidity, along with becoming a part of the small town and its gossip.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Michael McDowell's Blackwater series., September 16, 2011

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Grandma M "Grandma M" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michael McDowell's Blackwater VI: Rain (Mass Market Paperback)

I read these books back in 1983. Our son had a motorcycle accident and was in the hospital. The receptionist was reading the first one and mentioned that it was a great book. I read the synopsis of it and thought I'd try it. She let me borrow her copy. I was intrigued and purchased them all as they came out. I still have them. I was discussing the books with a friend the other day and decided to check Amazon to see if perhaps they might be ready for the kindle. I am not usually a fan of the supernatural....but these books? I really liked.