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<P>A high-society Southern satire about an heir's battle with his domineering mother, society's expectations, and his own mental health</P><P>The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living across the street from the Birmingham Country Club. The house happens to be where the writer Walker Percy lived as a child with his family until his father committed suicide in the attic with a shotgun. The only son of the current residents, Hamilton "Ham" Whitmire has several Ivy League degrees as well as a generous trust fund but is striving mainly to be an "ex-suicide," as defined by Percy's writings. As a result of Ham's intellectual aspirations and philosophical principles, and thanks to his trust fund, he has succeeded only in figuring out what he does not want to do with his life. Unfortunately this comprises just about all known occupations, but especially any involving the family business, which his imperious, society-matron mother insists he take over from his aging father. </P><P>When the novel opens, the thirty-seven-year-old son has recently returned to his hometown and taken a teaching position

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Author

Clark, Katherine

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611177770

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities