Walker Williams and his family journey to the Florida Keys to prevent their elderly, eccentric, and very rich uncle, Nolan Bennett, from marrying his young housekeeper

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Walker Williams is bright, lazy, a tad too selfish to be attractive and a more or less sane member of a Southern Gothic family. The Williams-Vidrine clan (Walker, rapacious Mamma, lubricious Sisterbaby and sleazy stepfather Stacy) are living beyond their means, and plan to hustle octogenarian Uncle Nolan out of some valuable Georgia property. Walker, dispatched to the Florida Keys to scout out Nolan's possible relationship with his young widow housekeeper, discovers that Nolan dreams of conversations with a God-like "Mr.C" about his human "Experiment" But courtly Uncle Nolan is not entirely daft and triumphs over the attempts of his unpleasant kin to commit him. The novel offers a witty, mordant, basically good-natured look at us and our times; rejected by 20 publishers a decade ago, it is a triumph for its 90-year-old author ( Colonel Ef fing ham's Raid ; Lucinderella ). Nominated for a Nobel Prize and still writing, Fleming is a kind of national treasure. Lovers of good fiction will cherish this example of his work.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The story of how rich, elderly Uncle Nolan's noxious family descends on him to protect their inheritance is a contrived, weary comedy, replete with a variety of stereotypic characters and jarring transitions. Nolan is the uncle of narrator Walker Williams, who is sleeping with his sister--called Sisterbaby. Sisterbaby is pregnant, either by him or by a sexually compulsive psychologist named Mollenbrink. Nolan communicates with God and the Devil in dreams. Humor regarding sex, religion, and humor is always risky, even when done well--and, when done in broad strokes, as here, it is tedious. On any level, this is a difficult work to defend and, certainly, an impossible one to recommend.
- Joseph Levandoski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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