Famous all over Town: A Novel (Story River Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611174392 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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I loved this book with its kooky characters I loved this book with its kooky characters. The setting of a small town in the South in the sixties was interesting with vivid portrayals of unusual situations.. "Uproarious, outrageous, tender & touching" according to Margaret Evans. Everybody in Somerset, SC has a secret. It's psychiatrist Bert Levy's job to uncover those secrets, but Bert's secret is that he's crazier than his patients. Careening from comedy to tragedy and back again - and that's just in one page - Bernie Schein's new book is small town southern life writ large. Uproarious, outrageous, and irreverent, "Famous All Over Town" is also tender, touching and deeply. That's Bernie Boy Jake and Billy I can't believe I'm saying this, but I predict that the surprisingly brilliant novel by Bernie Schein entitled Famous All Over Town will soon be famous all over the United States.The first time I saw Bernie Boy (that's what we called him back then) he was sitting on a tricycle in front of his father's grocery store, cussing like a sailor. He was about six years old. He had a laugh like a hyena and
His stories and essays have appeared in Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Weekly, the Beaufort Gazette, Creative Loafing, Lowcountry Weekly, and the Mississippi Educational Advance, and he has been interviewed on National Public Radio.Janis Owens, a best-selling southern novelist and self-described "Florida cracker," is author of "American Ghost," "The Cracker Kitchen," and other books. A forty-year veteran of middle school instructio
Shifting points of view place readers squarely in the mindsets of many of Somerset’s key citizens as Schein lovingly and laughingly invites us to reconsider what it means in the modern south to be white, black, Jewish, Christian, military, civilian, sane, insane, old, young, male, female, gay, and straightand to be of a place rather than merely in it. Famous all over Town, the first novel from southern storyteller Bernie Schein, stakes a claim on Percy’s unexplored terrain with a comically candid multigenerational account of two Jews, a lowcountry native and a northern transplant, at the epicenter of momentous events in the sleepy southern coastal hamlet of Somerset, a fictitious stand-in for Schein’s native Beaufort, South Carolina. Famous all over Town also uses its web of interconnected storylines to make its setting, the eponymous town itself, a central character with a personality and an arc as complete as that of any other member of the deftly rendered cast.Delving beneath the surface of the southern status quo, Schein’s tale follows these interconnected lives through the private and public upheavals in small-town life from the turbulent 1960s to the eve of the new millennium, confronting the ramifications of the civil rights era, Vietnam, Watergate, andcloser to homea deadly
Within these pages, Bernie Schein transports us deep into that psychologically loaded place and time where religion and racism serve as barometric bookends to a tragedy that touched the lives of an entire town and resonated with the whole nation.”Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah, Sister Santee, and Salkehatchie Soup“Famous all over Town captures the heart and essence of imperfect, lovable, infuriating, and admirable southern characters in a story full of vivid images and intersecting story lines from the ‘60s through the ‘90s. Bernie has staked his claim on the l