Last Things (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Madison Jones
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: East Alabama
- Principal Characters: Wendell Corbin
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Self, Rural or country life, 1980’s, Good and evil, Drug trafficking or dealing, Morality or morals, Fundamentalism
- Locales: Alabama
Last Things is the eighth novel by Madison Jones, professor emeritus at Auburn University. His is a distinguished body of work, and none of his novels is marked by the academic timidity or theoretical denseness one might expect from a professor of English or from a university writer-in-residence. One of Jones’s earlier works, A Cry of Absence (1971), is a masterful exploration of morality, and anyone who reads it will not be able to forget its unyielding protagonist, Hester Cameron Glenn. She is one of the most compelling characters in twentieth century American fiction, and it...
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