Sacrament of Lies (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Dewberry
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana
- Principal Characters: Grayson Guillory, Governor Guillory, Carter, Audrey Guillory, Dr. M. W. Fontenot, Laura Cormier
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Fathers, New Orleans, Women, Politicians, 1990’s, Louisiana, Governors, Statesmen
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Baton Rouge, LA
Elizabeth Dewberry’s first two novels, published under the name of Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn, were both first-person narratives in which a young, lower-middle-class Southern woman describes an agonizing conflict between the expectations of her society and her own needs. In both Many Things Have Happened Since He Died and Here Are the Highlights (1990) and Break the Heart of Me (1994), the heroine is torn between the patriarchal doctrines of Christian fundamentalism, the faith in which she was reared, and her own sense of right and wrong. The protagonist of the first...
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