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Its perspectives on race gender and sexuality however are dated and what you might expect from an author writing before the cultural shift of the late sixties and seventies

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Wanted to get back to literature after branching off into a bunch of pulp such as valley of the dolls the carpet baggers and worse

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Like setting camuss stranger in new orleans among the southern gentry

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Quite a bit of humor actually and speaks eloquently about the despair and exestential angst of modern life with people searching in all the wrong places and distracting themselves to death

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Written by a master in new orleans

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That said while i enjoyed the book ive never entirely bought into its status as a canonical work of modern southern literature

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Then i remembered that confederacy was published posthumously after tooles suicide and only after tooles mother took the book manuscript to a famous southern writer and insisted that he read it

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That southern writer and advocate for the book was walker percy