
The Gospel Singer
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Matt Godfrey
When a local man returns to Enigma, Georgia, as a successful traveling evangelist, the townspeople, who idolize him, begin to attribute him with healing powers he knows he doesn’t have. The celebrated first novel of Harry Crews, in its Penguin Classics debut.
A Penguin Classic
In Crews’ first novel published in 1968, a gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and place and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters - including a dead girl awaiting the gospel singer’s melodious eulogy, his dysfunctional family, a murderer, the zealous town residents, and a traveling freak show. This darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesque, and violent - yet strangely empathetic - first novel displays Crews’ brilliant literary talent that garnered critical acclaim and a cult following.
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hard too listen to in public or with friends but a damn brutal use of storytelling should be that way
honest southern gothic
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Superb
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The gospel singer
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Elvis was supposed to star in the movie
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Excellent all around
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Not included in any of my southern tomes but he is a worthy story teller.
Crews included every freak and abhorrent character to be found in one story.
Seems predictable at the outset, but the plot twists and turns so many times that the ending is a shock!
I will be reading more of his books now.
Character studies like no other southern writer
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Dark, gritty Southern Lit
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Wickedly funny satire of tent revival culture
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