Dixie Church Interstate Blues

Hilling, Rid, Hill, Ingrid

ISBN 10: 0670826162 / ISBN 13: 9780670826162

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1989

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 5086249-6

Reviews: Hill's luminous first collection of stories is set deep in the Dixie South. Her tales range wide and include failing patrician families in New Orleans and their warm, feistily acerbic black servants, lower-middle-class families in various states of disrepair, single women making their way as "roadie" singers and tough-talking, half-articulate adolescent youths. At its best, Hill's work is magical: rich in sensuously poetic description and startling metaphor; deeply sensitive and subtly perceptive. But so strong are her virtues, the author's minor lapses may disappoint the more, as when, however glancingly, she threatens to become didactic or obtrusively writerly, and allows her rococco poetic imagination to impede and falsify otherwise deeply convincing and empathetic narrative. In one of the stories, a lackluster high school student half inadvertently makes what his art teacher deems great art, at which the youth reflects "Art can't do anything to make life do anything but be life, and a thing you cannot understand." Yet Hill's stories do yield an insightful comprehension of human existence.
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Dixie Church Interstate Blues
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.