Junior Ray

Name: Junior Ray
Brand: NEWSOUTH BOOKS
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By John Pritchard

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This provocative novel takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-'60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about everybody and why he wants to shoot Leland Shaw, a shell-shocked World War II hero and poet who is hiding in a silo from what he believes are German patrols. Through a series of sleights of hand, misdirections, and near misses, Junior Ray and his sidekick Voyd give a dark tour of the Delta country as they chase their mysterious prey. Junior Ray's thoughts are peppered with excerpts from Shaw's notebooks-sometimes starkly different from Junior Ray's diatribe, sometimes eerily similar-and by the end of the story, it is up to the reader to sort out whose reality is more fantastic, Shaw's or Loveblood's, as the one stalks the other through the pages of this highly original and darkly comedic story.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 160
Publisher:: NEWSOUTH BOOKS
Publication Date:: 2008-07-01
Release Date:: 2008-11-15
ISBN / EAN:: 9781588382320
Weight:: 200 g
Dimensions:: 137/211/18 cm

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