The Hard to Catch Mercy - Softcover

Book 4 of 6: Southern Revivals

Baldwin, William P.

 
9780449909447: The Hard to Catch Mercy

Synopsis

Coming into manhood in a small town in 1916 South Carolina, fourteen-year-old Willie T. Allson tells a raucous tall tale about the year his cousins came to live with his family. A first novel. Winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction Reprint. Tour.

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Review

"A fine large-scale send up of the Great Southern Novel." --New York Times

"All readers of Southern fiction will enjoy this one." --Library Journal

"Southern story-telling at its best."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"A work of art." --Raleigh News & Observer

"[A] funny, sad, gentle, violent story . . . The adventures of Willie T. are so exciting a reader can scarcely get from page to page fast enough." --Detroit Free Press

About the Author

William Baldwin, a lifelong resident of the South Carolina lowcountry, has been a builder, shrimper, oysterman, teacher, historian, poet, biographer, and novelist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently The Unpainted South: Carolina’s Vanishing World - a collection of songs, photographs, and poems - and the novel Charles Town.

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