Word: horey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legendary character in the Georgia 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...
...although Semon Dye has seduced most of the women, consumed most of the corn, and taken most of the money in the immediate neighborhood of Clay Horey's shack, the people of Rocky Comfort are sorry to have the wandering Man of God hit the trail for the next town. He may have brought ruination with him, but he was at least a diversion. Most readers will not believe in any of the characters of Journeyman, but they may be impressed by Mr. Caldwell's violent energy, his satirical thrusts at orgiastic religion...
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