Overview
There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions, its wedding and obituary announcements. Banjo Grease is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage, the narrator yields a ration of innocence. Characters portray class as a marker as strong as race and gender, and distrust that they will ever escape in their lifetimes. Faulkner uses the term "eager fatalism." These stories' cumulative effect asks: When exchanging naivete for worldliness, what is lost in denying one's past?
- | Author: Dennis Must
- | Publisher: Red Hen Press
- | Publication Date: November 19, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 168 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1597090352
- | ISBN-13: 9781597090353
