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Guest of a Sinner (Voices of the South)
enlarge	Author: James Wilcox Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$17.95~~ Buy New: $4.19 You Save: $13.76 (77%) Buy New/Used from $1.78 Avg. Customer Rating: (2 reviews) Sales Rank: 1488430 Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Edition: LSU Press Ed Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 278 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 7.2 x 0.6 ISBN: 0807129690 Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780807129692 ASIN: 0807129690 Publication Date: April 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description "It is 22 cats that drive the dazzlingly handsome Eric Thorsen to distraction and into the apartment?if not immediately the arms?of Wanda Skopinski, the rather mousy woman he meets at church when she thrusts a lesbian romance novel upon him. The stench from downstairs drives him from both his rent-controlled apartment and his complacency as a not-quite-successful piano teacher. In his sixth novel, James Wilcox moves beyond the modern South he has etched so vividly and amusingly in the past to take on Manhattan. But somehow he manages to bring the city down to size. . . . The book is filled with as eccentric an array of characters and as much gentle kinkiness as any small-town chronicle. . . . A winning and consistently entertaining story."?Vogue

Customer Reviews: stunted dialogue and contrived storyline July 13, 1998 3 out of 7 found this review helpful In Guest of a Sinner, James Wilcox tirelessly attempts to depict a New York City that is as idiosyncratic as his writing is contrived. It is evident by the second chapter that his primary objective is to fashion an novel that captures urban entropy at its best. Unfortunately, his chaotic characters are plotted into a storyline that is meagerly strung together. In this book, Manhattan takes center stage, while Eric, Wanda, and the rest play second fiddle to the ever present metropolis: "Farther north at Gramercy Park she peered through the wrought-iron fence at the labeled trees and counted five yellow roses in a well tended bed...Ten minutes later, at Madison Square, she had to take a rest beneath a bronze Chester Alan Arthur...she got up and walked on through the show of a relatively new skyscraper, forty glass stories that blocked the sun from the shapely marble blossoms." Most of his references to the city are of landmarks easily accesible to any tourist! ! on a Big Apple Bus tour. Eric and Wanda are not only disconnected from this world they inhabit, but from each other as well. Wilcox's compression of one too many happenstance encounters and colliding worlds renders this novel and its characters unnotable and unbelievable. The stunted dialogue with pervades each chapter does not help matters: "I don't like the Spanish. They nearly ruined the Church with their Inquisition." "The Italians were no slouches, kid. And Avignon-- when I heard what they used to do there, in those dungeons,that was it for me." "I sometimes wonder why I go to Mass." "You'd really wonder if you saw the instruments they used to bless." This brand of back-and-forth leaves the reader wondering how such a supposedly comic and wry novel could be utterly dull. Reads like a Woody Allen movie March 25, 1998 4 out of 4 found this review helpful Like a Woody Allen movie in its 'nostalgia' for New York City - its public & private places, its people. A touchstone novel: you can select friends based on their reactions to this book and its on-target, off-beat images of -- for example -- 'the fellowship of Christian Anonymity.'

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