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7 gen 1998 · A Feast of Snakes is Harry Crews fine, extraordinary novel, and it is weird and starkly powerful. From the acclaimed author of such novels as Blood and Grits and Childhood comes an original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.
Central to the action, relationships, and themes in A Feast of Snakes is Joe Lon Mackey, former Boss Snake of the Mystic, Georgia, high school football team (The Rattlers). Prevented by illiteracy ...
6 set 2013 · A FEAST OF SNAKES is creepy, yes, but it's also a very sad novel with a protagonist it's hard to feel very concerned about. The life of Joe Lon Mackey has turned into a series of fascinating, gruesome spectacles, sure, yet he is still devoured by the same sadness we're all devoured by when we think about our young, carefree years.
12 giu 1978 · Und das ist schade, denn "A Feast of Snakes" ist wahrscheinlich einer der besten Romane der amerikanischen Nachkriegsliteratur. Dieser Roman enthält alles, was die Südstaatenliteratur ausmacht: "Southern Gothic", "violence" , präzise Wiedergabe der gesprochenen Sprache und poetische Beschreibung der Atmosphäre.
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One of Crews's darkest novels, A Feast of Snakes, holds within its plot lines, characters, and central symbol nearly all of his major preoccupations.Those include the failure of social structures ...
22 mag 2024 · May 22, 2024. A & E. “A Feast of Snakes” by Harry Crews is searing, hypnotic, disgusting, brutal, visceral, hilarious, and deeply tragic. It’s a book that grabs you like a pitbull and locks its jaw. Set in the tiny town of Mystic, Ga., with a rattlesnake for a high school mascot and an obsession with serpents in general, the book follows ...
A Feast of Snakes is probably the most skillfully crafted and entertaining novel ever written in which a fed up person goes violently berserk. But Harry Crews belongs to the tradition of great Southern weird writers such as Flannery O'Connor, so A Feast of Snakes is richer than that: Crews serves up the reality of people's savage and ...
