348 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1992 by Modern Library.
5 stars
(1 review)
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation.
Subjects
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- African American women cooks -- Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction