Showing posts with label Mississippi. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Paperback 588: The Sin Shouter of Cabin Road / John Faulkner (Gold Medal s1070)

Paperback 588: Gold Medal s1070 (3rd ptg, 1960)

Title: The Sin Shouter of Cabin Road
Author: John Faulkner
Cover artist: Uncredited

Yours for: $13

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Best things about this cover:
  • Josiah never went out a-preachin' without his trusty pet slattern.
  • Behold what the mind-blowing success of Erskine Caldwell hath wrought. 
  • With "ribald," "earthy," "uninhibited" and (on back) "bawdy" all featuring prominently on this cover, I canNot believe there's not a "frank" in sight. I guess "frank" is what you get when you drain the corny humor away.
  • I dig the guy's pocket square but what the hell is up with his shoes? Those are some amazing technicolor dream shoes right there. 
  • She is supposed to be sexy but she has dumb, lop-sided eyes and looks more seal than human.

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Best things about this back cover:
  • If you liked "Uncle Good's Girls," you'll "Uncle Good's Girls II: Gooder Than Ever."
  • I believe in the reality of a person named "Harry Serwer" about as much as I believe in a "star of Beelzebub."
  • Please please please let "the glory trail" be some porn term I'm as-yet unaware of.

Page 123~

"They ain't much difference in them politicians oncet they gits to Washington nohow," Uncle Good said. "They are all jest about furriners. I wouldn't trust nair one in Washington after they let the W P and A fall through."

Uncle Good—poet, prophet, statesman, regional caricature

~RP

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