The Redneck Bride

by John Fergus Ryan

Book Overview

A send-up of the seven deadly sins - southern style. There are a lot of funny goings-on going on in Bloat, Mississippi. Big Rafe is seething mad because his good-for-nothing son seems determined to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874830052
• ISBN13: 9780874830057
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The South...A la Steinbeck

I found this book on the shelf, signed and dated by the author, at the Memphis Library (Poplar and Whitestation Branch). If you have never lived in the South (and by South I mean, DEEP South), you might not "get it." The novel is a comical picture of the South written with a Steinbeck flair. These people almost do not exist now, but travel deep into the nameless counties of Tennessee or Mississippi, and you'll find a few of their counterparts. There's nothing quite like a Mississippi redneck in the "Memphis Area," and what a portrait the author paints! It's the truth in the outrageousness that tickled my funny bone.

Please Reprint This Book!

Mean, mean, mean comic vision of Southern life ala Crews and Faulkner. Perhaps the darkest funny book I have ever read. It's a shame it is out of print. For an excerpt from the novel that is easily available, see Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor.

Jeff Foxworthy must have known these people.

Unforgettable farce set in the old south. You won't meet a stranger bunch of characters this side of Swing Blade. A book that makes you laugh becuase it is so outragrous.