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Title: Midnight in Savannah by Darwin Porter ISBN: 0-9668030-1-9 Publisher: Georgia Literary Association Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spanish Moss & Outrageous Southern Charm
Comment: This novel manages--all at the same time--to be both satirical, campy, and melancholy, with psychologically accurate portrayals of eccentrics living in The South's most decadent city. It's a tour de force by Darwin Porter, one of the most entertaining writers in America today. It's sometimes interpreted as a spoof on the bestselling "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" that put Savannah on the tourist charts of the world. But believe me, it goes way, way beyond anything ever conceived by John Berendt.
In Porter's book, you'll find all the elements of big BIG drama: Greed, corruption, sexual tension (The South and Porter's books always have plenty of that), BETRAYAL, and murder, all of it set against a backdrop of Spanish moss, Southern decadence, and barely suppressed psychoses. Sometimes, it's devastating, to the point where it seems to blister the paint off the walls--but as Carson McCullers once said, "I always return to The South to renew my sense of horror."
Overall, it has provided me with three or four nights of highly pleasurable entertainment, and I am grateful to the author who created it. It's a fabulous read.
Rating: 5
Summary: An addictive plot from an addictive writer
Comment: Over the past few years, I have become addicted to the novels of Darwin Porter. These have included BLOOD MOON and RAZZLE-DAZZLE. In both cases, I read them twice. To begin with, I'm entertained. For a man who grew up during the Television Age, my attention span for reading is not that great. But I stayed up until I'd finished every delectable page of Mr. Porter's latest novel. Set in Savannah at the end of the 20th century, it is more than a mere stepchild to the world-famous work of nonfiction, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Whereas that book was "closeted," MIDNIGHT IN SAVANNAH deliciously describes the lives of six residents, both male and female, who have taken up residence in this decadent Southern city, which is so unlike the rest of Georgia.
Although from the beginning, some of the characters seemed doomed, we enjoy the fictional ride to its bloody conclusion. Although a drama, there is fantastic humor here in both the depiction of Southern gay life, and in aging Southern Belles of any gender. Instead of Tennessee Williams' wilting moth, Blanche Du Bois, we get the lusty Lavender Morgan, the most recent in a string of the world's great courtesans. We are treated to the likes of Tango, the beautiful black drag queen who's ready to reign as Empress of Savannah, dethroning The Lady Chablis. And we are presented with some lusty young men, ranging from the sexy, and usually oversexed, screenwriter Phil Heather to the handsome cop from Marien, Georgia, Brian Sheehan, with whom Phil falls in love.
Jason McReaves has something every man and woman wants a part of, and his wife, Lula Carson, is the most evocative portrait of a Carson McCullers clone I've ever read. The rest of the cast of characters, from Norma Dixie, who claims she was the maid to Mae West, to Gin Tucker, a Truman Capote clone, bring today's South brutally alive in the seething tale of corruption and greed.
Steamy Savannah was never steamier than the way it appears in this novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gimme more, Gimme more.
Comment: When I visited Savannah, I found it hypocritical, gossippy, deceitful, complacent, and smug. I also found it beautiful, historic, and compelling. Porter's book, which I read after my return, was adept, accurate, and witty. "BRAVO, I say, to the Georgia Literary Assn for portraying one of that state's key cities in such a satirical light. Tourism there will only increase, thanks to this IMPROVEMENT upon the rather dull and disorganized fare originally dished up by John Berendt. Only Darwin Porter had the feistiness to laugh out loud (in print) at the foibles of Savannah and its spectacularly crazed eccentrics, both gay and straight. At least one thing is perfectly clear: If Porter had ever satirized Kabul or Jalalabad with the accuracy he did Savannah, those cities would have fallen even faster than they did under the U.S. Marines!
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Title: Rhinestone Country by Darwin Porter ISBN: 0966803035 Publisher: Georgia Literary Association Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Blood Moon: A Novel About Power, Money, Sex, Brutality, Love, Religion, and Obsession by Darwin Porter ISBN: 0966803043 Publisher: Georgia Literary Association Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Hollywood's Silent Closet by Darwin Porter ISBN: 0966803027 Publisher: Georgia Literary Association Pub. Date: 20 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah by Lady Chablis, Theodore Bouloukos, John Berendt, Robin Bowman ISBN: 0671520954 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart: The Early Years (1899-1931) by Darwin Porter ISBN: 0966803051 Publisher: Georgia Literary Association Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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