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Junior Ray : a novella by Pritchard, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This novella takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-'60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about everybody, and why he wants to shoot Leland Shaw, a shell-shocked World War II hero and poet who is hiding in a silo from what he believes are German patrols. Through a series of sleights of hand, misdirections, and near misses, Junior Ray and his sidekick Voyd give a dark tour of the Delta country as they chase their mysterious prey. Junior Ray's thoughts are peppered with excerpts from Shaw's notebooks - sometimes starkly different from Junior Ray's diatribe, sometimes eerily similar - and by the end of the story, it is up to the reader to sort out whose reality is more fantastic, Shaw's or Loveblood's, as the one stalks the other through the pages of this darkly comedic story.

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Author

Pritchard, John

Publisher

NewSouth Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781588381118

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14