This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution.
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This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution.
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Having just read the author's Tobacco Road, and found it to be funny and touching, with well-drawn characters, I was amazed by how the author couild follow it up with such a flimsy story (but I confess I didn't get to the end, bacause it was so bad.) He should have followed the example of Harper Lee, who wrote the magnificent "Mocking Bird" and left it at that.
kawol
Jul 5, 2007
one of my favorites books
this is one of the best books I`ve ever listened to
