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Must Dennis - Banjo Grease - Paperback
Must Dennis - Banjo Grease - Paperback
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Description: But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don t try to hold him that he can t escape from. William Faulkner Light in August There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions its wedding and obituary announcements. Banjo Grease is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage the narrator yields a ration of innocence. Characters portray class as a marker as strong as race and gender and distrust that they will ever escape in their lifetimes. Faulkner uses the term eager fatalism. These stories cumulative effect asks: When exchanging naivete for worldliness what is lost in denying one's past?
Title: Banjo Grease
Author(s): Must Dennis
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Barcode: 9781597090353
Pages: 168 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/19/2019
Category: Short Stories
Description: But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don t try to hold him that he can t escape from. William Faulkner Light in August There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions its wedding and obituary announcements. Banjo Grease is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage the narrator yields a ration of innocence. Characters portray class as a marker as strong as race and gender and distrust that they will ever escape in their lifetimes. Faulkner uses the term eager fatalism. These stories cumulative effect asks: When exchanging naivete for worldliness what is lost in denying one's past?
Title: Banjo Grease
Author(s): Must Dennis
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Barcode: 9781597090353
Pages: 168 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/19/2019
Category: Short Stories
