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The Gaudy Place: A Novel - Voices of the South
Fred Chappell
The Gaudy Place: A Novel - Voices of the South
Fred Chappell
Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy's prank. Arkie, Clemmie, and Oxie are three of a kind: cons who grub for small change. They have no history and no future. Johns is their counterpart in a brighter universe. His thievery is sanctioned because he's Family in a small Southern city. Arkie: Suddenly it occurred to him that this street, Gimlet Street, could take you anywhere in the world, it was joined to all the other streets there were. He shook his head, grinning. This was his territory. He was chained to Gimlet and he was chained to Clemmie, that green-eyed girl he was so helplessly in love with. Fred Chappell is a past Poet Laureate of North Carolina.
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192 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 30, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780807119341 |
Publishers | Louisiana State University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 10 mm · 333 g |
Language | English |
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