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Title: This read is a Southern Comfort
Review: Have just finished Old MOrtality portion of this book. The way porter goes @ language, a bull w/ her head, hooking @ hoping to gore us something...It is admirable. Also a Texan & have not heard of her. Even if you've never been to the state, she is that rich link to the region and to humanity in general that many of the southern writers are. When you read Eudora Welty, you get distinct pictures of humans and what it is they do and think and feel during their days. Porter does it, too. She doesn't go for hard contrasts like Flannery O'Connor, but has a simple workmens' ethic to her language. (John Gardner is recalled by this.) I can care less about the topic of the first story...it's just that porter makes you want to know because she nails down for us a real world inhabited by real people. Amen, folks.
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