Shine Hawk
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Critics have compared Charlie Smith to Faulkner, Hemingway, Whitman, and Wolfe. In a front page review, The New York Times Book Review hailed this astonishing novel as a work of appalling brilliance .... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0945167016
ISBN13:9780945167013
Release Date:January 1988
Publisher:Paris Review
Length:367 Pages
Weight:1.68 lbs.
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SHINE HAWK:Southern Gothic about love & memory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
What are we but the sum of our memories? In SHINE HAWK, Charlie Smith updates Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING and puts me in mind of Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim (who was also unstuck in time). His viewpoint character, Billy, returns home to help a couple of old friends because Frank's little brother Jake has died alone in a trailer (alcoholism), but Billy's still in love with Frank's wife Hazel (and, truth told, with Frank). But the novel's not told strictly chronologically, though the floating in time is easy to understand. The language is gorgeous, with stupendous imagery. The story is about love--eternal love, brotherly love--and faithfulness. However, if you are going to be offended by graphic sex (threesome, peeping. . . ), you'll have to decide for yourself whether you'll want to read SHINE HAWK.
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