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Dark violence and piebald absurdity share an uncertain border, and now and then some mythmaker on his day off, like Grubb, manages to write within this certainty. A fine book, written for the hell of it, which is a splendid reason. Time
Set in the Appalachian backcountry in the midst of the Great Depression, Fools Parade traces the adventures of three ex-convicts who become involved in a wild and woolly chase along the Ohio River.
Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452.32 the result of his having salted away his meager earnings in the Prisoner s Work-and-Hope Savings Plan of the local bank. With his friends Johnny Jesus and Lee Cottrill, he plans to open a general store that will compete with the company store in Stonecoal, West Virginia.
Unfortunately, banker Homer Grindstaff, prison guard Uncle Doc Council, and Sheriff Duane Ewing have no intention of allowing Mattie to realize his ambitions. Mattie s efforts to cash his check set a deadly pursuit in motion and introduce the reader to a host of colorful characters and a vividly recreated regional and historical background. Good and evil meet head-on in this novel that is, by turns, warm and humorous, rousing and tumultuous.
The Author: Davis Grubb (1919 1980) was the author of ten published novels, the most famous of which was Night of the Hunter. Both that book and Fools Parade, originally published in 1969, were made into motion pictures.
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Davis Grubb (1919 1980) was the author of ten published novels, the most famous of which was Night of the Hunter. Both that book and Fools Parade, originally published in 1969, were made into motion pictures."
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