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From the novelist The New Yorker called "a writer of extraordinary power," A Feast of Snakes is a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural south and the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. Joe Lon Mackey, a former All-American running back now without purpose or pleasure in his life, decides that the gathering of snake-hunters in his hometown is he ideal opportunity to get some attention. His search for excitement triggers a bizarre series of events - including adultery, castration, suicide, and murder - as Harry Crews once again presents a macabre, hilarious, and irrestible version of the human comedy. "Absolutely stunning ... Crews is in the first ranks of American novelists." - Jonathan Yardley, The Miami Herald "Crews ... has a cool, pungent, almost hair-raising writing style, deceptively simple and fluid ... plus a marvelously wry sense of humor ... No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews's creations." - Kenneth Turan, The Washington Post Book World " A Feast of Snakes is a brief but absolutely stunning novel, one that upon a c

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Author

Crews, Harry

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

1976

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.01 / 5 (3,052 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13