I read
Vinegar Hill
by A. Manette Ansay, yesterday. I liked it, but it has bitter to spare. I like that the narrative shifts a lot and that the story jumps around through various generations. That doesn't always work in books, but I think it does here.
I find myself comparing it to
House of Sand and Fog,
another bitter Oprah book. But unlike HoSaF, VH did not leave me hopeless for humanity and wanting to stay in bed for days.
We will be discussing VH tonight at bookclub, and I am supposed to lead discussion, so I am off to see if there is anything online about it.
As a short interlude I started the 2nd Lemony Snikett book last night.
I have
Vinegar Hill
on my Amazon Marketplace "to buy" list. Ansay teaches at a writing workshop I really want to go to one of these summers, and she started off as a student there, so I really want to read it.
Is anyone else here a Lorrie Moore fan? I must know.
Lilty, I will send you mine after tonight. e me your address.
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
how about midwestern gothic?
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic? how about midwestern gothic?
This is horrible, but all that I can imagine is that couple standing in front of the farmhouse with the pitchfork.
how about midwestern gothic?
Like Southern Gothic, but people pronounce their r's.
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
dysfunctional. lots of family secrets, usually involving affairs and/or illegitimate children and/or incest (or all three). Lots of sneaking around in the kudzu and the sounds of crickets in the darkness. At some point, someone sits in a rocking chair on a porch and fans themselves.
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
Spooooky, y'all.
edit: Thank goodness Vortex came in with an actual definition. :)
So, like Eugene O'Neill, but with more lurking?
Sometimes florid prose, or at least prose that calls attention to itself. (Not sure this goes for Flannery O'Connor, actually, but works for Faulkner.)
