Title: Bleak at best - Bleak at worst
Product review: I wish I could have liked this book more, but I'm weary of bleak tales of growing up poor and Southern. It's not that I am unaware of the travails of families who lived off the land -- I come from people who lived in the backwoods and made it through the worst times of the Great Depression.I just don't want to read about their struggles over and over and over again.As to comparisons between William Gay and William Faulkner -- GET REAL! This guy can't even stand on Faulkner's porch. Faulkner may have created sentences that ran on for 3 pages, but he was smart enough to use punctuation, for heaven's sake.I guess the literary world is so desperate for quality these days that they'll latch on to anything different. In this case, however, different isn't necessarily better.
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