Modern Baptists

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"Every reviewer, no doubt, has methods for marking choice passages in a book. Mine is a system of colored paper clips; yellow means funny. Modern Baptists should be thick with yellow clips on every page, but it does even better than that. While I was reading it, I laughed so hard I kept forgetting my paper clips. Mr. Wilcox has real comic genius. He is a writer to make us all feel hopeful. " — Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
"Out of the life of a small town in back-country Louisiana, James Wilcox has made a tale that is realistic and fantastic, painfully comic, and, in a strange way, psychologically penetrating. Modern Baptists is an impressive achievement, and its author is a writer of impressive promise. There is no writer exactly üke him. He is an originál. " —Róbert Penn Warren
Modern Baptists, James Wilcox's dazzling debut, introduced a novelist who has since come to be generally regarded as "one of the most promising writers on the national scene" (Los... Tovább

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"Every reviewer, no doubt, has methods for marking choice passages in a book. Mine is a system of colored paper clips; yellow means funny. Modern Baptists should be thick with yellow clips on every page, but it does even better than that. While I was reading it, I laughed so hard I kept forgetting my paper clips. Mr. Wilcox has real comic genius. He is a writer to make us all feel hopeful. " — Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
"Out of the life of a small town in back-country Louisiana, James Wilcox has made a tale that is realistic and fantastic, painfully comic, and, in a strange way, psychologically penetrating. Modern Baptists is an impressive achievement, and its author is a writer of impressive promise. There is no writer exactly üke him. He is an originál. " —Róbert Penn Warren
Modern Baptists, James Wilcox's dazzling debut, introduced a novelist who has since come to be generally regarded as "one of the most promising writers on the national scene" (Los Angeles Times). When Bobby Pickens's half-brother, F.X.—ex-con, ex-actor, and ex-husband (three times)—moves in with Bobby in Tula Springs, Louisiana, things just seem to go wrong. It's only a matter of weeks before Bobby finds himself involved in a theft, a hit-and-run collision, a nervous breakdown, unemployment, assault and battery, a number of fouled-up romances, and charges of degeneracy brought by the lunchroom attendant at Tula Springs High. It finally takes a Christmas Eve party in a cabin in a poisoned swamp to sort out the tangled affairs of Tula Springs and, in the process, to reveal to Bobby and his friends the pain and sweetness of living life with a full heart and a generous spirit. Vissza