Modern Baptists
By James WilcoxUniversally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and debuted the endearingly daft community of Tula Springs, Louisiana. It's the tale of Bobby Pickens, assistant manager of Sonny Boy Bargain Store, who gains a new lease on life, though he almost comes to regret it. Bobby's handsome half brother F.X.-ex-con, ex-actor, and ex-husband three times over-moves in, and things go awry all over town. Mistaken identities; entangled romances with Burma, Toinette, and Donna Lee; assault and battery; charges of degeneracy; a nervous breakdown-it all comes to a head at a Christmas Eve party in a cabin on a poisoned swamp. This is sly, madcap romp that offers readers the gift of abundant laughter.
Book details
- Paperback
- 256 pages
- English
- 0316940453
- 9780316940450
About James Wilcox
james wilcox (b. 1949 in hammond, louisiana) is an american novelist and a professor at lsu in baton rouge.wilcox is the author of eight comic novels set i Read More about James Wilcox
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