The Hard to Catch Mercy

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-61117-521-9
Verlag: University of South Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Southern Revivals

From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award–winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age in the post–Civil War South, when the lines between these issues were not always clear. Set in fictional Cedar Point, a small southern community in the early 1900s, The Hard to Catch Mercy is told through the eyes of a young boy, Willie T., who is forced to confront the changing world around him. Including a cast of incredibly outlandish characters, Baldwin’s novel is a wild, darkly comic tale rich with trick mules, Christian voodoo, fire, brimstone, first love, death, and the end of the world as Willie T. knows it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldwin, William

Über Autor(innen)

William Baldwin, a lifelong resident of the South Carolina lowcountry, has been a builder, shrimper, oysterman, teacher, historian, poet, biographer, and novelist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently The Unpainted South: Carolina’s Vanishing World - a collection of songs, photographs, and poems - and the novel Charles Town.