Easter Weekend

by David Bottoms

Book Overview

Easter weekend in Macon, Georgia, and Connie Holtzclaw, a good-hearted ex-boxer and small-time loser, dreams of carrying his girlfriend away to a ranch in Montana. His brother Carl, though, has other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395515289
• ISBN13: 9780395515280
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable, beautiful yet somber novel

David Bottoms was a teacher (maybe he still is) at Georgia State where I graduated from. My first few years in school I wanted to be a novelist and became an English Major. Bottoms was the guy whose class EVERYBODY wanted to get into.I never did. I tried 3 straight semesters and got blocked all 3 times. Later I changed majors (twice). Anyway, I heard about this genius/poet/novelist and I HAD to read his book. I am glad that I did. It is a simple story about simple people but it's beautifully written and the characterization/description/plot and well, just about everything, work well in the story. i only gave it 4 stars because I felt it could have been a lot longer than it was. I do not like SHORT novels and it left me wanting more. I don't know if any of you have ever read any Pinckney Benedict or Flannery O'Connor but Bottoms writes very much like them. I wish he'd write more novels. The book is a definite good read and I highly reccomend it.

excellent!

It's an excellent book that has great words to describe the story. It's good for visualization. The book makes you want to read more and more. I read five cahpters in one hour because it was so interesting.

Huh?

This comments on the previous review. The title character whose name this reader has forgotten is unforgettable. Excuse me, did I miss something?