Word: dening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backwoods, he both delights and surprises white-trash Clay Horey by driving into the yard one day and demanding food, lodging and female solace from one of the "high-yallers" down the road. Horey is glad to comply until Semon makes a play for his 15-year-old wife, Dene. The novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse, where the inhabitants of Rocky...