http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 3 May 2004 22:23:04 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/03/020021.php#comment-61975 I wish he would have hung around longer.Great book, great review. 61975@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 22:23:04 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/03/020021.php#comment-61957 Thanks for the compliment. The physical descriptions of the town, and the hills surrounding the town, the dirt and the trees all seem real specific, like he had some definite place in mind. Yet, I did not see the word Mississippi specifically. Aunt Mae seems to have had stickers from both New Orleans and Biloxi on her suitcase. She speaks of her last job before coming to live with the fam as having been in New Orleans, and her description does makes it sound far away and exotic. 61957@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 18:24:13 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/03/020021.php#comment-61954 It's been some years since I read it but I seem to recall it was set in the hill country of N.Miss.I'll have to go the library and pick it up as I loaned my copy out years ago never to be seen again. I know that was a triflin' point and all but if memory serves me right... I'll get back witcha Al, right or wrong. Good review,by the way. 61954@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 18:16:05 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/03/020021.php#comment-61941 HW- I may have been just assuming that it was in Louisiana because it's set in a small Southern town, and being from New Orleans was a big thing about the Confederacy. I just finished reading the book yesterday, but from your note I went back and scanned the whole book. I found nothing specific that said what exact state it was in. It's apparently somewhere south of Tennessee, and not North Carolina. However, I see nothing to tell me that it was specifically Mississippi (or Louisiana). There's the mention of a town called "Springhill" near the state line from whence came the girlfriend, but there's one of those in MS, LA and CA, and probably others. Where does it say what state it is set in? 61941@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 17:04:00 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/03/020021.php#comment-61923 AL, I don't know when the last time you read this was but it is set in M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I,homes. Great of you to mention it though. 61923@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 15:19:35 EDT