By Rodney Jones

ISBN-10: 0544960106

ISBN-13: 9780544960107

“A novel in language as dense and plush and lovely as poetry . . . [or] a booklet of poetry with the brilliant characters and the narrative strength of a singular? no matter what you care to name it, it’s a outstanding achievement.” — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of Empire Falls
 
Village Prodigies imagines town of chilly Springs, Alabama, from 1950 to 2015 and unfurls its narrative achieve as six boys—prodigies and swains—grow up and depart the familiarity of domestic and the agricultural South.

but all prodigies, all thoughts, all tales necessarily loop again. via a multiplicity of issues of view and leading edge types, Rodney Jones performs with the contradictions in our event of time, developing portals wherein we shuttle among moments and characters, from the internal brain to the main external speech, from delusions to rational notion. We event Alzheimer’s and its influence on kin, take heed to relatives lore and skim family members fb posts, relive conflict, and revive half-forgotten folktales and games. during this deep exam of private and communal reminiscence, Jones blurs the traces among analog and electronic, poetry and prose.

 

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