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The novel is set in Mystic, Georgia in 1975, and primarily follows Joe Lon Mackey, a former high school football star, who now is an alcoholic, abusive husband, and father. Coming up is this year's Rattlesnake Roundup, a time when people come to hunt, kill, and eat snakes in the town.
- Harry Crews
- 1976
1 gen 2001 · Harry Crews's southern Gothic tale packs in racism, rape, dog-fighting, madness, suicide, murder, wife-beating, and snakes, snakes, and more snakes. The violence in this novel is everywhere, above and below the surface, a pulse all its own.
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- Paperback
7 gen 1998 · The premise, a twenty-something Joe Lon Mackey is stuck in a trailer home with a woman he loathes and several hungry children while he escapes with recent memories of his glory football days, drinking moonshine, and helping the town with its annual snake festival.
- (232)
- Harry Crews
- $13.79
- Touchstone
Set in the rural backwoods of Georgia, A Feast of Snakes is a surreal romp through the dementia of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, the only event for which the town of Mystic...
15 dic 2022 · The premise, a twenty-something Joe Lon Mackey is stuck in a trailer home with a woman he loathes and several hungry children while he escapes with recent memories of his glory football days, drinking moonshine, and helping the town with its annual snake festival.
- (232)
- Harry Crews
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.
7 gen 1998 · A Feast of Snakes: A Novel. 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...
