Moe Howard Died For Our Sins
by Dale Andrew White
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Author: Dale Andrew WhiteEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-29
ISBN: 1413462871
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
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Book Review: To open this collection is to invite trouble--and probably enjoy it.
Summary: 5 Stars
MOE HOWARD DIED FOR OUR SINS: Made-to-Fit Tales for the Maladjusted by Dale Andrew White
REVIEWER: Rod Clark
Dale Andrew White is a devious writer, and his new collection, Moe Howard Died for our Sins, provides incriminating evidence of this. On the one hand, the flavor of his tales faintly evokes that decayed ante-bellum style of southern literature that is both lyrically humorous and self-deprecating; the sort of thing we get in Faulkner's Sartoris, or Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. In his mythical locations like "Dire Straits, Georgia" or "Mosquito County," one can easily hear the (admittedly distant) echoes of Faulkner's beloved and tormented Yoknapatawpha landscape, while the eccentricity of his characters recalls Twains rascally creations: the Duke and the Dauphin. On the other hand, this is not the satire of Ambrose Bierce or H. L. Menken. It is more like the kind of in-your-face semantic slapstick that you might expect of a George Carlin or a Lenny Bruce. It is impossible to get through one of his stories without laughing out loud at least once, and wincing several times. In his hilarious opening tale, The South's Greatest Writer, Mr. White draws a sketch of an imaginary yet unforgettable femme fatale of literature: Hannah Rath, creator of the Bile Straits Trilogy. Her life features many incandescent moments, such as the time graduates at the University of Georgia pelted her with flaming pecans after her commencement address entitled: "You have sold your souls for lawn furniture!" Other demented treasures in this collection include the title story, "Moe Howard Died for our Sins," documenting the tragic descent of a young man into a cult of Three Stooges fans, "Scenic Hell Becomes Vacation hot Spot," a tale of twisted tourism in the infernal regions, and "Benny The Broker," an account of a young gangster who traffics in illegal literature. To open this collection is to invite trouble--and probably enjoy it. You can put this book down, but whether you can forget it is entirely another matter. The reader is warned.
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