Título: A feast of snakes
Autor: Harry Crews
Sinopse: Welcome to Mystic, Georgia. This going-nowhere town hosts the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, which attracts thousands of visitors for a rough 'n' rowdy weekend of your basic primate behavior--hard drinking, ogling bikini-clad contestants in the Miss Mystic Rattle beauty contest, betting on dog fights, snake catching, and snake eating. Meet Joe Lon Mackey. He lives in a trailer in Mystic with his lumpy, devoted wife and two hollerin' young'uns. His days of glory as the Boss Snake of the Mystic Rattlers football team are over, and he didn't have the grades to go to college. He's just now realizing that his dreary business selling beer, bonded whiskey, and moonshine is all he's gonna get in the way of a destiny. As the crowds for the Roundup start to overfill the camping area, Joe Lon feels on the inside like a barrel of snakes: "a writhing of the darkness, an incessant boiling of something thick and slow-moving." As he and his good ol' buddy get ready to wander around and check out the scene, Joe Lon says, "Just a bunch of crazy people cranking up to git crazier. But that's all right. Feel on the edge of doing something outstanding myself." A Feast of Snakes is probably the most skillfully crafted and entertaining novel ever written in which a fed up person goes violently berserk. But Harry Crews belongs to the tradition of great Southern weird writers such as Flannery O'Connor, so A Feast of Snakes is richer than that: Crews serves up the reality of people's savage and unrelenting cruelty toward animals and toward each other, stark truths about human despair, male-female face-offs at their sexiest and most ruthless, and (here's his real genius) humor so powerful you can't help but laugh--even though it hurts when you do.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “A feast of snakes”, de Harry Crews, publicado pela editora Atheneum, em 1987 e com 285 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Atheneum
Páginas: 285
Ano: 1987
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 0689707150
ISBN13: 9780689707155
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Atheneum oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada pela diversidade temática e pela alternância entre narrativas mais densas e outras mais leves. O catálogo inclui desde dramas psicológicos intensos, que exploram memórias e traumas pessoais, até aventuras com elementos de suspense e fantasia, como espionagem histórica e poderes sobrenaturais. Essa variedade cria um contraste interessante entre obras que focam no desenvolvimento íntimo dos personagens e aquelas que privilegiam o ritmo acelerado e a ação. O tom pode variar do reflexivo e sombrio ao vibrante e cheio de humor, sempre com atenção à construção de atmosferas que envolvem o leitor.
