The Devil's Hearth
A Southern, Fiction, American book. Good story idea, weak execution. Reading this was like slogging through mud....
Fever Devilin is a folklorist and a very recent ex-academic who has decided to return to his family home in the Georgia Appalachians. But his homecoming isn't quite what he expected---he arrives at the home he once shared with his now-deceased parents to find a corpse on his front porch, evidence that someone has been living in the house without his knowledge, and someone in the woods around the house taking shots at him with a rifle. Simply put, it could...
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- Pages: 244 pages
- ISBN: 9780312284855 / 312284853
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Excerpt from Page 4:"Dev?" (Skidmore) looked off into the woods. "I believe someone's shooting at us with some kind of rifle.""You might be right, Skid." (Fever) looked at the (broken) window. "Whom, do you suppose, would care to do that?""Could be the Devroe boys," he said calmly. "I believe I saw them out hunting earlier this evening.""We... I almost put this book down for good because I have a very hard time with the style of dialog between men that's used her. Plus, I guess I felt intellectually inadequate because I wasn't able to follow the "in" academic jokes and references and that made me want to give up right at the beginning.But...I kept on reading because I had... Good story idea, weak execution. Reading this was like slogging through mud. If you had told me the publication date was 1963 and not 2003 I would have totally believed it. Very disappointing.
