Shine Hawk - Softcover

Charlie Smith

3.96

28 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671684981 ISBN 13: 9780671684983

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1990

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Returning for a confrontation after seven years exile, Billy Crew discovers his best friend is now married to Billy's former lover, and the three set out on a journey during which they run afoul of the law

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From Library Journal:

In Smith's powerful new novel Billy Crew returns to his south Georgia home after a seven-year exile. He renews his friendship with Frank Jackson and Frank's wife, Hazel, whom Billy has loved for most of his life. With the decaying corpse of Frank's brother Jake in tow, the three embark on a bizarre burial journey that leads them to reflect on their pasts and brings about a future none of them could have envisioned. The familiar trappings of modern Southern literature are in abundance here: ornate Faulknerian prose, trailer parks and pentecostal preachers, lyrical eroticism, and incantatory meditations on the past. Yet Smith transcends the familiar with stylistic brilliance and a palpable energy all too rare in a contemporary fiction dominated by anemic minimalism. Very impressive.Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.
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From Publishers Weekly:

Billy Crew almost cracks up when his girlfriend Hazel Rance marries his buddy, lumberjack Frank Jackson. Billy flees the South for New York, only to return years later to confront his past. "Told in a series of long, digressive flashbacks that slow the narrative, this novel is, at its best, a haunting, incantatory meditation on sin and salvation, loss, love and the need to go on," wrote PW.
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