Furors Die: A Novel - Hardcover

Hoffman, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807115606 ISBN 13: 9780807115602

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Amos "Pinky" Cody works his way through law school and tries to reach the same level of success as his wealthy childhood friend, Wylie Duval, but his desire for money and influence leads him to a moral dilemma

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"Hillbilly trash" is an epithet hurled by rich, smug Wylie DuVal at his father's awkward errand-boy, Amos Cody, aka Pinky. Son of poor, rural West Virginians, Pinky, member of a Pentecostal religious sect, condemns Wylie's youthful sexual and boozing escapades, yet secretly envies his freewheeling lifestyle. As the two go their separate ways--Wylie to college, then a brokerage job; Pinky to law school and fervent crusading for miners--this vividly detailed, wholly unsentimental novel deflates the snobbery and decorum of the wealthy and the self-righteousness of the overzealous. The lives of the boyhood antagonists intertwine repeatedly, notably when both fall for the same impetuous actress. When Pinky changes course to pursue Mammon, the story slips into heavy-handed parable, but the ending, which charts his total crack-up, exemplifies Hoffman's ( Godfires ) gifts for powerful psychological realism and prose that is by turns briskly functional and piercingly poetic.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807115606
• ISBN 13: 9780807115602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308