Word: spoonbread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southerner Roy Blount Jr. indignantly recalls that "one afternoon this African got up in my favorite class, Difficult Fiction, and denounced William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those faraway old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross...
Fiction is full of lawyers, from Louis Auchincloss's glossy barristers to the spoonbread counselors of William Faulkner and Harper Lee. But none of them seems as recognizable-or amiable-as the hero of George V. Higgins' latest novel. Moreover, if Kennedy's clients are criminals, they are also Higgins' liveliest creations. Take Cadillac Teddy, a professional car thief who specializes in Cadillacs. "Your Porsche, your Corvette, your Jaguar, your Mercedes, I can get you them, but I'm not used to them, you know?" His current complaint: a state trooper has eaten his driver...
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