The Book of Bebb (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Buechner
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Plot: Religious satire
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Florida, Houston, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and other New England locales
- Principal Characters: Antonio Parr, Leo Bebb, Sharon Bebb, Lucille Bebb, Babe Bebb, Brownie
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, South or Southerners, New York City, West, U.S., Wit or humor, Faith, Preaching, Reincarnation, Texas
- Locales: New York, NY, South Carolina, Florida, Texas
The Novel
In the 1970’s, Frederick Buechner published four novels centered on his most animated and most fully realized character, Leo Bebb: Lion Country (1971), Open Heart (1972), Love Feast (1974), and Treasure Hunt (1977). These four novels form the tetralogy which was reissued as one volume entitled The Book of Bebb (1979). Buechner took advantage of this reissuing to make some slight revisions, none of which materially altered the structure, characterization, or tone of his raucously comic creation.
Though the incorporation of...
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