Lee Durkee
Rides of the Midway
A Novel
"With this eruptive debut novel, Durkee...has just kicked in the door of Southern literature."—Salon.com
Meet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing
dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist faith healer.
Noel, who prefers The Exorcist to Ecclesiastes, must navigate a world of
Bible-thumpers, born-again Christians, and a stepfather who bears an uncanny
resemblance to Billy Graham. Darkly comic and lyrically moving, Rides of
the Midway introduces a formidable new talent in contemporary fiction.
"[A] raucous tour through this scorched landscape of faith....sentences so
beautiful that you stop to read them twice."—Time Out New York
"[An] exceptional first novel."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[A] deft and funny first novel....Dark and exhilarating."—New York
Times Book Review
Lee Durkee was born in Hawaii, raised in Mississippi, and now lives in Vermont.
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