Word: apalachicola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shooting a Splinter. But Emma was not done. She shot a tornadic splinter straight through the heart of the little northwest Florida town of Apalachicola. Then, still producing 90-m.p.h. winds, she thundered up out of the Gulf into Mississippi and Louisiana...
Elsewhere in this first novel by 21-year-old Peggy Bennett of Apalachicola, Fla. there is still more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...