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...Your family is etched into you like tattoo, something that can make you ashamed or proud. But it is there anyway, occupying a space beneath the skin, at once both a decoration and a scar...
...SCAR LOVER by Harry Crews...
...Flannery O'Connor strapped side by side on a roller coaster, and you have Harry Crews writing Southern gothic. In 1990 he produced the uproarious Body, in which he yoked a family of half-crazy Georgia crackers to the queasy glitz of big-time body building. Now there's Scar Lover, a comic love story filled with death and mutilation...
...gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga, a giant Rastafarian woman with a face "beautifully scarred" by razor markings and dyed in a vivid multicolored swirl, who is passing out ganja cigarettes from a Sucrets...
...long as Crews is taking big risks, like arranging an appallingly sentimental love scene against a backdrop of psychedelic macabre, Scar Lover works a kind of wacky magic. But his premise, which is roughly that scars have as much to do with healing as with hurt, doesn't carry him very far, and neither do the grotesque accidents that pass for plot...