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A Feast of Snakes

by Harry Crews

A rural Southern setting, a town gathering

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A rural Southern setting, a town gathering

Set in Mystic, Georgia, Harry Crews’s novel centers on the Rattlesnake Roundup, a local event that brings the town’s distinctive subculture into view. The description points to a rural South shaped by a particular communal gathering, giving the story a specific place and social context. Its subject is the world surrounding the roundup rather than a broadly sketched Southern setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction set in the rural American South
  • Readers drawn to stories organized around a distinctive local event and community

Themes

Rural Southern lifeCommunity and subcultureLocal tradition

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Book overview

A Feast of Snakes is Harry Crews fine, extraordinary novel, and it is weird and starkly powerful.From the acclaimed author of such novels as Blood and Grits and Childhood comes an original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.
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