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...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The novel romps with rare grace and good humor through the tangled woods of adolescence, first love and new manhood as a North Carolina farm boy hunts for his lost brother and a wandering python...
...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The wild and wandering pursuit of an escaped python through a North Carolina pinewoods provides the epic setting for this perceptive, humorous novel of an adolescent boy's march into manhood...
...kudus for his efforts: the troops were looking for fancier fare, such as peppered leopard or antelope with cantaloupe. The troops washed down their meals with giraffes of wine, and afternoon visitors to Flagstaff House were offered tea and simba-thigh, followed by lemon meringue python...
...Python & Enchantress. Price's story tells of a rambling, weekend hunt for a rabid dog that has bolted into the pinewoods, for the dog's dimwitted, devoted master, Milo's brother, who has bolted too, and for an 18-ft., 280-lb. python named Death that has escaped from the county fairgrounds and is the slithering, ravenous reason for their flight. Milo himself would rather pursue his affair, begun two days before, with the 16-year-old daughter of the python's proprietress, but family fealty prevails over private pleasure. With the town's aging...
Eventually, dazedly, he makes his way to the searchers' rendezvous. There, in a disused outhouse the python plops down to crush him-and inadvertently knocks from the eaves a shoe box containing 10,000 long-abandoned dollars. The hunt completed, the python slain, the treasure delivered to its rightful inheritor, Milo discovers that there is more to life than the gift of genital...