false <![CDATA[Twilight]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171581193m/108315.jpg 108315 5 A Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won&#8217;t let the dead rest. <br><br>Suspecting that something is amiss with their father&#8217;s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead.<br><br>Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first, he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters&#8211;old men, witches, and families among them&#8211;who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety. <br><br>With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairy tale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil. 104375 20 10 2006 Twilight total:184|5:45|4:81|3:36|2:17|1:5| 184 696 321 47 2 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 08:24:16 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 13:11:08 -0800 2008 Twilight is the one teenage girls aren’t raving about. Thing is, it didn’t impress me much either.

The plot is a simple cat-and-mouse chase game: Set in the 1950’s, siblings Corrie and Kenneth Tyler want revenge on the town’s undertaker, Fenton Breece, for plunder...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Feb 11 10:31:35 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:05:06 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 10:31:35 -0800 2009
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For some reason, this reminded me of a Nick Cave early album. Suppose it was American Gothic themes. A straightforward tale of unreliable undertakers who do odd things with bodies, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 06:34:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:34:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:59:42 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 12:25:34 -0800 2008 1 Entertainment Weekly. Once started, I could not put it down until the last page. To me, this was a brutal, unforgiving roller coaster ride along the lines of No Country For Old Men.

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William Gay is (to over-simplify) Cormac McCarthy with more depth and better prose.

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Excellent. Just what I was looking for.

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