I first read this in college for a course on Southern Women Writers. Due to the frenetic pace at which I had to ingest the books on the syllabus, I re...moreI first read this in college for a course on Southern Women Writers. Due to the frenetic pace at which I had to ingest the books on the syllabus, I retained nothing about this story except for when the kid comes out of the field and gets into the truck.
Well, a hell of a lot more happens in the book than that. Pretty incredible portrait of three generations ruined by religious fundamentalism. Scary as hell. Each man deals with his "burden" in different ways, and each one in turn gain nothing. Highly symbolic with slaughter of lamb/Bishop, other religious references that I miss because I'm an uneducated atheist, sun imagery, fire imagery, heat imagery...
Flannery: not too many kids named that this days.(less)