By Harry Crews
ISBN-10: 0859470091
ISBN-13: 9780859470094
A black jockey with a genius for horses and girls ... his white grasp, a slave to the corrupt wishes of his flesh ... an amoral Southern attractiveness queen, out to seduce and take advantage of them both.... From this twisted human triangle comes one of many sensational novels of our time—a revelation of ardour, perversity and unusual hungers.
"Absorbing and superb!"—Erskine Caldwell
“An unforgettable experience!”—Oregon Journal
“Macabre and slapstick, howiingly humorous and as unhappy as a zoo, ribald and wry, bare in backyard Hills lives as much as and past the shining promise of Mr. Crews' first novel, The Gospel Singer. it truly is southern Gothic at its top, a Hieronymus Bosch panorama in Dixie.” —Jean Stafford, within the manhattan instances booklet evaluation
“The degree is determined with such minute perfection and truth that any one attempting to describe it will probably merely be stuck in imprecise inanities. backyard Hills is a carnival, a freak convey that echoes all of existence. it's a degree of Mr. Crews’ paintings that from this international unblemished fact emerges. Ruthless, merciless, blackly attractive ... as uncomplicated and inevitable as sin-brings-punishment and as advanced and extreme as human adventure ..."—Harper’s
“Fine and livid, brilliant and alive ... an enormous new voice!”—Los Angeles Times
From Kirkus Reviews
You might have in mind the underground hymn of The Gospel Singer (1968). Mr. Crews back offers an existential freakshow that's delicately crafted and seems announcing anything. . . whether you're by no means relatively definite what it really is. He's type of the Ingmar Bergman of the fast novel featuring the following backyard Hills, as soon as web site of the world's greatest phosphate mine, deserted now to 12 households and the "Fat Man," whose father by accident turned a millionaire. "Fat Man" is a 5 foot, pounder while first met eating crates of Metrecal and nonetheless capturing slowly outward. He's handled via 4 ft of perfection, one Jester who used to be destined to be a jockey yet misplaced his race with worry. "Fat-Man" lives in his fortress, benign custodian to the twelve households who're confident that the phosphate king Jack O'Boylan goes to reactivate the mine so they can resume their most likely interrupted lifestyles development. yet Dolly, again from big apple, understands that O'Boylan isn't coming again and he or she has plans for turning backyard Hills into the main a long way out vacationer capture ever conjured up by way of a distorted brain. The plan comprises move pass cages and one rather solid one with trays of steaming foodstuff. Mr. Crews has one of many wildest imaginations round. . . you won't be ready to placed him down.
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