Handling Sin, Special Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, ** FREE trade paperback copy of "UNCIVIL SEASONS" by M. Malone with Purchase

Malone, Michael

ISBN 10: 0316544558 / ISBN 13: 9780316544559

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1996

About this Item

Softcover, trade paperback format, Special Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Page Proofs, as stated on cover, Condition: As New due to bump to back bottom cover , otherwise advance is Unread, Spine Not Broken, Never opened past copyright page, First Edition as stated, No Printing information listed on copyright page. ** FREE copy of the trade paperback "UNCIVIL SEASONS" by Michael Malone with Purchase, "Uncivil Seasons" is #1 of 3 in the Savile and Magnum series, Trade paperback copy is in FINE condition due to slight wear and curling to cover corners, and very light bump to back bottom corner however copy is Unread, Spine Not Broken, binding tight, never opened past copyright page, (assumed) 1st Edition being a 1st Printing with full # print line LB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as printed on copyright page, FREE with Purchase of "Handling Sin".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handling Sin, Special Advance Reading Copy, First Edition, ** FREE trade paperback copy of "UNCIVIL SEASONS" by M. Malone with Purchase
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316544558
• ISBN 13: 9780316544559
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Advance Reader's Copy
  • FREE book with Purchase
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Raleigh W. Hayes is in quest of his runaway, aging, eccentric father, his own murky family history, a chest filled with Confederate gold, and a little peace and quiet

Reviews

Demonstrating a spirited grasp of the genre, Malone (Dingley Falls has written a "romance novel" in the original sense: a long tale of chivalrous heroes and extraordinary events. This madcap book bubbles with a frenzy from the first pages, an initially disconcerting pace that rarely allows the reader to catch a breath. With a wink to Cervantes and Dickensas well as the Marx Brothersthe narrative recounts the two-week odyssey of Raleigh Whittier Hayes, an upstanding citizen of Thermopylae, N.C., and Mingo Sheffield, his Sancho Panza. They encounter a bizarre cast of characters during their adventures, including Raleigh's criminal half-brother Gates, his prison buddy Weeper Berg, and aging jazzman Toutant Kingstree. Their quest, to unfairly simplify it, is to recapture Hayes's ailing father, who has escaped from the hospital with a young black woman, and who has left Raleigh a strange set of tasks to fulfill before a planned rendezvous in New Orleans. While tantalized by the promise of a secret treasure at the end of the journey, Hayes uncovers family secrets and Raleigh is granted a large measure of self-enlightenment. This is a highly refreshing tale in which Malone has managed to make the bizarre hilariously credible. 75,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo.
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With braggadocio, Malone says in his acknowledgments that he expects a major movie company to buy Handling Sin. And his novel's scenario does seem designed to outdo Cannonball Run , Peyton Place and, at times, Porky's. It stars Raleigh W. Hayes, Baptist Church stalwart, Civitan regular, staid insurance agent, who miraculously metamorphoses overnight into Bruce Lee/Rocky/Rambo as he totes a pistol, battles the KKK and the other gangsters, poses as an FBI agent, and shades of Mickey Spillainehas sensuous women swooning as he travels from Thermopylae, N.C. to New Orleans with excessively contrived adventures. This episodic novel panders with explicit sexual encounters, manipulated incidents/coincidences, and flagrant reliance on deus ex machina. But, alas, there is little reading pleasure in it. Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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