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Title: The Last of How It Was: A Novel by T. R. Pearson, T.R. Pearson ISBN: 0-671-61738-9 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Like a hysterically funny Faulkner
Comment: The town of Neely, North Carolina is just as Gothic as anything Faulkner ever wrote, with murders, adultery, accidentally slaughtered mules, Stonewall Jackson, escaped convicts, dropped coffins, and Injun fights, but T. R. Pearson makes Neely one hell of a lot funnier than Yoknapatawpha County. In the final volume of the trilogy that also includes _A Short History of a Small Place_ and _Off for the Sweet Hereafter_, narrator Louis Benfield relates stories of his family as told by Louis's daddy Louis, with interruptions, corrections, and emendations from Aunt Sister, Louis's maternal great-aunt, and from Louis's mother. The story rambles like a footpath through the North Carolina hills, with sentences that continue for whole paragraphs and paragraphs that continue for pages, creating a style that seems incomprehensible on the page but which reveals its meaning when read aloud, in all its Southern baroque glory.
_The Last of How It Was_ has the flavor and feel of a long Sunday afternoon visit, sitting on the front porch, listening to family tales that don't go anyplace much or have any enormous meaning, but which, for that very reason, are nonetheless a delight.
Rating: 5
Summary: Passion. Madness. Murder. Mayhem. Funny.
Comment: The closing book of T. R. Pearson's Neely trilogy, The Last of How It Was seems to ramble, but is tight as a drum. Does murder run in the family? Louis Benfied, Jr., listens raptly as Daddy and Momma and Aunt Sister explain.
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Title: Gospel Hour by T. R. Pearson ISBN: 0380710366 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Call and Response by T. R. Pearson ISBN: 0671639927 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson ISBN: 014200362X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cry Me a River by T. R. Pearson ISBN: 0805022007 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: True Cross by T. R. Pearson ISBN: 0670032387 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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