Junior Ray. John Pritchard
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Название: Junior Ray

Автор: John Pritchard

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Контркультура

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isbn: 9781603061223

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      Junior Ray

      A novel by

      John Pritchard

      NewSouth Books

      Montgomery | Louisville

      Also by John Pritchard

      The Yazoo Blues

      Praise for Junior Ray

      “Mississippi tourist officials won’t be handing this book out anytime soon, though they might be surprised by its effectiveness if they did . . . Not for the squeamish, but its irreverent humor will win over most.”

      — Publishers Weekly

      “For all Junior Ray’s ugly talk, the writing here is beautifully crafted. Providing counterpoint to Junior Ray’s perfectly calibrated invective, Pritchard sprinkles the narrative with Leland Shaw’s heartbreaking journal entries about being hunted by Nazis . . . while not for the squeamish, [Junior Ray] deserves shelf space beside the best southern literature—even if it makes its neighbors blush.”

      — Barnes & Noble

      “Junior Ray is an unforgettable narrator: hilarious, rowdy, and stubbornly his own. In life you’d cross the street to avoid him; in Pritchard’s delightful fictional debut, you’ll turn the pages to see what that rascal does next.”

      — Louise Redd, Hangover Soup

      “Junior Ray Loveblood has taken profanity and made a new language of it, which he uses to tell the often hilarious, often scary, story of life as a poor white in the Mississippi Delta, down its lonely roads and through its dark forests. Not for the squeamish or pure at heart.”

      — John Fergus Ryan, White River Kid

      “A whizbang of a book—funny, eccentric in that great Southern tradition, pitch-perfect, and beautifully paced. Junior Ray’s voice, while repugnant, is also beguiling, sorrowful—though

      he doesn’t know it—and rich in cracker surrealism. The book drips with Delta air and brings alive its peculiar, specific population.”

      — Burke’s Bookstore

      “Mark Twain meets the Coen Brothers in this foul-mouthed farce. This short burst of a novel reads like a delicious white trash tirade, bound to offend but a whole lot of demented fun.”

      — Square Books

      NewSouth Books

      P.O. Box 1588

      Montgomery, AL 36102

      Copyright 2008 by John Pritchard. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.

      ISBN (hardcover): 9781588381118

      ISBN (paperback): 9781588382320

      eBook ISBN: 9781603061223

      LCCN: 2008040562

      Visit www.newsouthbooks.com.

      To Cele

       Interviewer’s Comment

       Chapter 1

      Me — Leland Shaw — Voyd — Temptation Jones — Sunflower’s Underpants

       Chapter 2

      Shaw’s Notebooks — Boneface — Shaw Runs Off — Sheep

       Chapter 3

      The Silo — The Search for Shaw — The Hopping Man — Niggas & Planters — Miss Helena Ferry — Disappearing Footprints — Mr. X and the Light-Skinned Miss Atlanta Birmingham Jackson

       Chapter 4

      Quicksand — More About Footprints —The Nite Al Cafe & Club — Voyd Goes Home Nekkid

       Chapter 5

      Mr. Floppy — The Need to Shoot Somebody — Lost in the Woods Across the Levee — a Submarine — Boy Sprouts — Mr. Brainsong

       Chapter 6

      How the Submarine Provides the Clue to Shaw’s Hideout — Jack Smiley’s Crop Duster — Me and Voyd Shoot Up the Silo

       Chapter 7

      Niggas, Planters, & Bankers — Miss Helena’s House — Revolving Mohammedans — A Pussy Bomb — We Go Inside the Silo

       Chapter 8

      Morse Code — I Feel Unfulfilled — Eye-Fukkin-Talians & Other Foreigners — My Sex Plan Involving a Preacher’s Wife — The End

       Epi-Fukkin-Logue

       About the Author

      This book is not for the squeamish, yet it is essential reading for those who wish to understand the Mississippi Delta, its conflicts of class and race, its angels and, most certainly, its demons.

      It was in my investigation of this peculiar region that I made two significant discoveries: (1) that the Notebooks of Leland Shaw did exist and (2) that they were in the possession of a Mr. Junior Ray Loveblood, of whom my mother had heard much from my uncle, the late Owen Glyndwyr Brainsong, formerly the Superintendant of Education for Mhoon County.

      I was informed by the grandson of a Mr. Mudd that Mr. Loveblood had Shaw’s diaries—works of supposed literary merit, which, frankly, I had consigned to the closet of local mythology, or at least to the same category as that of the “works” of Professor Floodwater Scott whose famous footlockers everyone believed to be filled with his detailed record of the Southern oral tradition . . . turned out to be totally oral.

      The thing is, I understood instantly the magnitude of the journals I discovered to be, in fact, in Mr. Loveblood’s possession—and I think Uncle Owen would have agreed. Namely, that just СКАЧАТЬ