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Call and Response (1989)

by T.R. Pearson

Series: Neely (4)

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The author interweaves the story of widower Nestor Tudor's unrequited love for Mary Alice Celestine Lefler with parallel stories of a wide variety of other equally peculiar courtships.
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Enjoying this, but it takes some getting used to the writing style. Those long, run-on sentences! But they really add to the humor. One thing I've noticed is that this is really a collection of short stories set in the same town. ( )
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It had come to him from his daddy by way of his daddy's brother Tyler Lamont who'd wrapped it in a rag and laid it for safekeeping in the back of his uppermost bureau drawer which was for socks chiefly and cotton briefs and ribbed sleeveless undershirts as well and not heirlooms ever but this once which was probably how come Tyler Lamont forgot presently that back of his socks and his briefs and his undershirts was an item in a rag he'd been charged to pass on and bequeath.
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The author interweaves the story of widower Nestor Tudor's unrequited love for Mary Alice Celestine Lefler with parallel stories of a wide variety of other equally peculiar courtships.

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From the jacket flap: "...Meandering from comic set pieces (like the novel's opening scene, which culminates when a walnut fired from a stripper's 'nether regions' knocks a man out) to hilarious digressions, Pearson perfectly captures the peculiar lilts and rhythms of the South--and spins a magical tale of love and all its manifold complications. The novel centers on Nestor Tudor, a middle-aged widower who is overfond of Ancient Age and Old Gold filters and is the current keeper of his family's talisman, the legendary walnut. Pearson interweaves the story of Nestor's late-blooming, and ultimately unrequited, affection for Mary Alice Celestine Lefler with parallel stories of true love and broken hearts, young love and cheating hearts, and every other variety of courtship imaginable. Extravagantly funny and overflowing with the rich cadences and droll loquacity of Southern storytelling, Call and Response is a remarkable encore to Pearson's Neely trilogy."
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