Andrews' debut with Apalachee Red (1978) demonstrated his high-gear
story-making drive - and, back once more in the little Georgia town
of Apalachee during the Depression, he's full steam ahead again.
Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee starts out as a black servant in
the house of the town's wealthiest family, the MacAndrews; but she
then moves into the greyer (though more powerful) area of being Ira
MacAndrew's mistress. Four children issue from their long-standing
arrangement: sons Sugar Boy and Speck, daughters Luvenia and Doris
Virginia. And the four kids turn out different in all ways - except
for their light complexions (poor Speck even has blond hair, which
he keeps under a cap 24 hours a day) and their aristocracy of high
spirits. So, along with local country characters such as Crazy Coot
and Cousin Tater (who shares an old church building with a
razorback hog), the family of matriarch Rosiebelle - who herself
develops into an almost mythical figure during her lifetime - puts
a giant spin on this novel; it gets going on page one and never
stops. Andrews has got the boll-weevilish story-telling bug (as
does, on a higher level, Eudora Welty) - and he just lets it munch.
. . in another slice of down-home, lightweight enjoyment. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being
tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black
life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the
beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with
bullwhips to the moment when the pendulum began to swing.
This second novel in the trilogy begins in 1906, on the day when
a beautiful "acorn-brown" woman arrives in the small North Georgia
community of Appalachee asking directions to "the house of the
richest white man living in this heah town." Forty years, one
hundred acres, four children, numerous grandchildren, and many
legends later, Rosiebelle Lee is on her deathbed--and ready to
reveal her secrets.
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