The novel focalizes around the annual rattlesnake round-up leading to castration and mass murder along with other, lesser venial sins which make everyday life in Mystic look as tame as a picnic of nuns. A Feast of Snakes is in line with his earliest, strongest books the made-to-order symbolism you might question is still there but it's not as elliptical as in Car in fact how can it miss with snakes? This one's about Joe Lon Mackey of Mystic, Georgia, a former All-American with real troubles-not what the others around here call ""miseries."" He has a wife he beats up, two young ones, and on the plus side the ""honeylegged"" Berenice, a great little baton-twirler of any kind. Crews' native Georgia or Florida where he's been staging a Southern Gothic freakshow of gospel singers and midgets and half-wits. There's been, with one exception, a novel a year out of Mr.
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