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Pros
I loved the prickly relationship between the two youths; sherman's efforts to look important and put down the privileged jester. Mccullers' attention to tone, to voice, is a wonder to behold. The blind man with a * is set in small-town georgia on the ... Read More
Her novels and stories handles both emotional and sociological levels. She lays out the conflict with surgical precision and creates a world that doesn't exist any more. Her prose is pure magic, lyrical, and it sweeps you away.
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Quality
Extremely well written pulled me into time and place with one character in particular that i am quite familiar with
He only goes to church to be associated with the 34great men34 of the small southern town hoping to obtain his own importance for doing so
34his tale is punctuated by those of three other men his friend judge clane an elderly conservative struggling with the sideeff... Read More
Theres a pharmacist dying of leukemia who struggles with the diagnosis
Price
I recommend the book highly and the price was nice
Packaging/appearance
These people are dead or about to die living in the pasts glories
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- How are reviewers describing this item?
old, novel, black and southern. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 536 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 2 2024.
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The setting was segregation and the main character was an old judge who hated black people
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At the end of the book almost everyone had died or gone senile
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The story and setting were interesting but not something i would read again
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I didn’t think i would enjoy this sliceoflife narrative about racism in the south
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The writing is almost poetic although the characters were deeply flawed
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I thought i had read all of her books but hadnt heard of this one
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Although the writing is very enjoyable like for example the great narrative to end the novel i felt that the plot had some flaws especially on the reason why jester father committed suicide
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The story is a fictional account of a small town in 1950s georgia
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