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*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.When the novel opens, the thirty-seven-year-old son has recently returned to his hometown and taken a teaching position at a historically black college in the other Birmingham not the one where he grew up. As an anxiety-ridden, panic-attack-prone depressive in a perpetu

Who reads The Ex-Suicide?

Author

Clark, Katherine

Publisher

The University of South Carolina Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611177763

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14