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Cadillac Orpheus by Solon Timothy Woodward (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFree Press
ISBN-101416549307
ISBN-139781416549307
eBay Product ID (ePID)59623078
Product Key Features
Book TitleCadillac Orpheus
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicAfrican American / General, Literary, Humorous / General
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorSolon Timothy Woodward
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-023473
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisA bawdy, brilliant debut introducing us to three generations of a family, as they attempt to co-exist in the present-day American South., Inspired by Carl Hiaasen and Victor D. LaValle in equal measure, Solon Timothy Woodward mines the nether regions of Florida in search of high drama and raucous comedy. Full of sex, death, and humor, this bawdy, brilliant debut introduces us to three generations of a family in the boisterous, unholy, uncompromising landscape that is the South of today. Nowhere are the careless vagaries of fate more evident than in a town called Johnsonville on the northern Florida coast, where a family called the Toaks have pushed every possible social boundary to its logical extreme for three generations. Feddy Toak, in his forties, is a medical school dropout, recovering alcohol and cocaine addict, and former handyman. He lives marginally in cheap rental properties owned by his father, Teo, one of Johnsonville's most prosperous bail bondsmen, slumlord, and idol to a diminishing old guard of hustlers and con men who frequent such dives as the He Ain't Here Lounge. Jesmond Toak, Feddy's son, haunted by his father's violent past and current failures, is turning toward the low road. The entire city seethes with schemes and intrigue and the plot builds as monies are reaped from a black youth falsely arrested for the murder of a white cop, insurance scams involving poor residents stricken with cancer and AIDS, and nefarious land deals involving cemeteries and real-estate scam artists. Suicides and murders, infidelities and violence mount and converge with shattering precision on the eve of a hurricane, forcing the entire community to struggle with its demons -- and search for some chance at redemption. Chronicling a slice of American landscape and culture with rare levels of depth and originality, Cadillac Orpheus defies categorization: it is by turns exuberant, terrifying, hilarious, brave, brazen, and, above all, wondrous., In this dark and defiant comic novel, an inventive and bumptious new talent shows a family, a community, and a side of Florida never seen before., A bawdy, brilliant debut that introduces readers to three generations of a family as they co-exist with the greatest of unease in the present-day American South. Jesmond Toak is a rep man with problems: his relationship with his father is troubled, his pastor's gay son is implicated in the suicide of his boyfriend, and the woman Jesmond loves is married to a threatening man known as Special Ed. Deaths, disaster and disappearances occur in the days leading up to Hurricane Aretha, and Woodward ties together his unruly plot points with madcap glee.
LC Classification NumberPS3623.O687C33 2008
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