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Cover of A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews

A Feast of Snakes

1976

classics dark gritty noir

“No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations.”
— Washington Post Book World

From the author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.

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A Feast of Snakes

Year

1976

Crime Horror Literary Fiction

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classics dark gritty noir

Praise

“No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations.”
— Washington Post Book World

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From the author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia.

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