Yonder Stands Your Orphan | Yonder Stands Your Orphan

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Author: Barry Hannah
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The present
Setting: Points in and around Eagle Lake, Mississippi
Principal Characters: Man Mortimer, Dee Alison, Frank Booth
Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mississippi, Orphans or orphanages, 1990’s, Arms or weapons, 2000’s, Knives
Locales: Mississippi

The law could not touch him because his bordello was spread in myriad chambers throughout the suburbs and even underpasses in giant, newish sport utility vehicles with flattened rear seats, good mattresses, sunroof s tinted by creamy smoke and fine stereo systems, the aphrodisiacs of new-car smell and White Diamond mist working side by side.

It is only the realization that he is sharing with another man the affections of his woman, Dee Allison, that sends Mortimer spinning off his Mississippi axis and out of control. When Mortimer finds out about Frank Booth, Dee Allison’s...

Yonder Stands Your Orphan | Yonder Stands Your Orphan

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