The Hard to Catch Mercy : A Novel
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| Title: | The Hard to Catch Mercy : A Novel |
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| Description: | A Southern Revivals edition of an award-winning coming-of-age story in the post–Civil War SouthFrom lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award-winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age in the post-Civil War South, when the lines between these issues were not always clear. Set in fictional Cedar Point, a small southern community in the early 1900s, The Hard to Catch Mercy is told through the eyes of a young boy, Willie T., who is forced to confront the changing world around him. Including a cast of incredibly outlandish characters, Baldwin's novel is a wild, darkly comic tale rich with trick mules, Christian voodoo, fire, brimstone, first love, death, and the end of the world as Willie T. knows it. |
| Authors: | William Baldwin |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Teenage boys--Fiction |
| Categories: | FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Gothic |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | A Southern Revivals edition of an award-winning coming-of-age story in the post–Civil War SouthFrom lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award-winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age in the post-Civil War South, when the lines between these issues were not always clear. Set in fictional Cedar Point, a small southern community in the early 1900s, The Hard to Catch Mercy is told through the eyes of a young boy, Willie T., who is forced to confront the changing world around him. Including a cast of incredibly outlandish characters, Baldwin's novel is a wild, darkly comic tale rich with trick mules, Christian voodoo, fire, brimstone, first love, death, and the end of the world as Willie T. knows it. |
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| ISBN: | 9781611175219 9781611175226 |
