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"Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly." William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience Scholar Hugh Ruppersburg, addressing a confernece on contemporary literature in the spring of 1989, referred extensively to the yet-to-be published first novel by North Carolina author Max Childers, calling it "a darkly comic vision of the modern South, pop-religious evangelism, decadent gentility, and the K-Mart lifestyle. It gives a grotesque and weird portrayal of modern Southern and American life. It exceeds both Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews in its preoccupation with violence and human grotesquerie. At its heart is a compelling moral repugnance at the sterility of modern life. At its heart too is a rejection of the sentimental notion that the rural South and its inhabitants somehow posses an innate nobility and goodness which contrasts with the decadent urban world." What happens when a man wakes up in a hospital and suddenly believes he is God? Charles Fite assembles a small, fanatical band of followers and sets out to make his mark in the world of television evangelism. He also becomes the unwitting pawn in a comic and convoluted legal case which pits two disparate attorneys against each other. The judge in the case becomes the unsuspecting star of some very revealing video tapes as he acts out costumed fantasies with the defense attorney's wife. When you combine the comic genius and black humor of Lucky Jim, The Ginger Man, Catch-22 and A Confeferacy of Dunces, what emerges is Max Childers' madcap masterpiece, THINGS UNDONE.Back Flap CopyMax Childers holds degrees from the University of South Carolina and the North Carolina Central University School of Law. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Winthrop College, and lives in Lowell, North Carolina with wife Jean and their sons James and Charlie. THINGS UNDONE is his first novel.Jacket design by Gil Shuler No library descriptions found. |
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