Novel - Hardcover

Singleton, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151011281 ISBN 13: 9780151011285

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

Struggling to write his autobiography from a motel room, a professional snake handler named Novel inadvertently uncovers a decades-old town secret with potentially explosive ramifications for his neighbors. By the author of the Half-Mammals of Dixie. A first novel.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR "NOVEL"
"What Singleton does best in "Novel" is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South. Stereotypes of uneducated, slow-talking, slow-moving Southerners are exploited, then mashed like ripe melon on hot pavement."--"The Seattle Times"
"Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us think."--"The Times-Picayune "(New Orleans)
PRAISE FOR "NOVEL"

"What Singleton does best in "Novel" is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South. Stereotypes of uneducated, slow-talking, slow-moving Southerners are exploited, then mashed like ripe melon on hot pavement."--"The Seattle Times"

"Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us think."--"The Times-Picayune "(New Orleans)
PRAISE FOR"NOVEL"

"What Singleton does best in"Novel"is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South. Stereotypes of uneducated, slow-talking, slow-moving Southerners are exploited, then mashed like ripe melon on hot pavement."--"The Seattle Times"

"Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us think."--"The Times-Picayune"(New Orleans)
PRAISE FOR NOVEL
"What Singleton does best in Novel is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South. Stereotypes of uneducated, slow-talking, slow-moving Southerners are exploited, then mashed like ripe melon on hot pavement."--The Seattle Times
"Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us think."--The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

From the Back Cover:

Praise for WHY DOGS CHASE CARS
"Singleton's hilarious insights come early and often."--The New York Times Book Review
"Singleton's style lies outside the usual briar patch. It's a cross between, say, Ralph Ellison and Molly Ivins . . . Singleton isn't just a killer at the hilarious one-liner, he can keep riffing on something good paragraph after paragraph, page after page."--The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Praise for THE HALF-MAMMALS OF DIXIE
"Singleton's relentlessly offbeat stories are a miasma of flea markets, palm readers, bowling alleys, and alligators, offering a disturbingly askew--at times, downright surreal--vision of the South."--Entertainment Weekly
"George Singleton is a madman. He's also one of the most talented American writers the South has turned out in decades."--The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
"Absolutely hilarious. It reads like a combination of the wry humor of Eudora Welty, the bizarre creations of Flannery O'Connor, and the crazy denizens of Edward Swift's Splendora."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
Praise for THESE PEOPLE ARE US
"George Singleton has the singular voice of a down-home schizophrenic. His stories are crazy mad fun."--Playboy
"George Singleton writes about the rural South without sentimentality or stereotype but with plenty of sharp-witted humor . . . A raconteur of trends, counter-trends, obsessions and odd characters."--Morning Edition, NPR

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0151011281
• ISBN 13: 9780151011285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335