Description
A Feast of Snakes follows Joe Lon Mackey as he watches his life slip away, caught between the pull of memory and the blunt force of the present. In a two-part journey through the rural South, the novel first drifts into nostalgic recollection before turning toward a Rattlesnake Roundup where an exotic, fiercely local subculture erupts in all its glory. With Harry Crews’s signature blend of dark humor, lyrical grit, and vivid sensory detail, the story becomes a meditation on time, identity, and the uneasy ways people make meaning out of spectacle. Part coming-of-age, part cultural portrait, it confronts what remains when the past can’t be reclaimed and the future won’t wait.
Available Editions
paperback
Atheneum
Published Jan 1, 1976
177 pages
ISBN: 0689107293
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Details
First Published
1976
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews.