A Feast of Snakes (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Harry Crews
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Mystic, Georgia
- Principal Characters: Joe Lon Mackey, Willard Miller, Buddy Matlow, Beatriz “Beeder” Mackey, Elfie Mackey
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Rural or country life, Dreams, Violence, Stereotypes, Satire
- Locales: Mystic, GA
The Novel
Set in the rural backwoods of Georgia, A Feast of Snakes is a surreal romp through the dementia of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, the only event for which the town of Mystic has gained repute. In the same Southern Gothic vein of his predecessors William Faulkner and James Dickey, Harry Crews delivers a vision of a South beset by demons of the past and nightmares of an uncertain future. The reader quickly becomes coiled in the lurid, perversely sexual, and often venomous lives of the local population and realizes that Mystic is no place for the timid or the...
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