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First tagged "southern fiction" by Jameson Currier "Jameson Currier"
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Welcome to a South. Circa 1969. Where all is about to change. Paul is an eleven year-old child held between his fundamentalist faith and a flourishing recognition of his sexuality. Lady is a black lady who has been integrated into Paul's propagandize and doesn't wish to be there. Helen, Paul's mother, is perplexing to turn a nation song star to wand off her augmenting disillusionment as mom and mother. Rupert, Paul's father, is increasingly assured that extra-terrestrials exist and he needs to find them. And Velvet Archer, Paul's gorgeously appealing neighbor, haplessly careens between church and a career in an bid to save herself from her addictions. Sharp, funny, and infused with a dark, wily cleverness, Personal Saviors is a miraculous amicable image of American lives unfortunate for any arrange of salvation.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1227004 in Books
- Published on: 2011-10-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .43" h x 5.98" w x 9.02" l, .62 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 188 pages
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By Bob Lind
Wesley is an eleven year aged boy, negligence realizing that he is gay, though stranded in a fundamentalist ruin of a tiny Southern city in 1969. His father believes extraterrestrials are all around them, and his mom seeks to shun a dullness and disillusionment with his her life by perplexing to turn a nation song star. Paul's usually genuine crony is Lady, a black lady unfortunate during being to attend his scarcely all-white school, though he also spasmodic keeps association with Velvet Archer, an appealing singular lady who fluctuates between her addictions and perplexing to be a indication Christian.
The author presents razor-sharp, colorful characters who conduct to make elementary matters rather formidable with their efforts. An beguiling light read, and recommended. Four stars out of five.
- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine
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