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The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
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Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Overbylass
Read from February 09 to December 21, 2014
Discarded from Russell High School Library. Rather a beaten-up 1975 hardback copy, which I have taped up.
Description: Published to wide acclaim in 1976, but almost neglected since then, The Auctioneer is a bona fide classic of American literature. The story of John Moore, his wife Mim, and his mother, it is a gripping tale of greed in a small town being quietly overrun by auctioneer Perly Dunsmore. Acclaimed by writers including Stephen King, and an influence on King’s Needful Things, The Auctioneer is here reprinted for the first time in thirty years.
Joan Samson (1937–1976) wrote The Auctioneer, her only novel, and was working on her second when she died of cancer.
Opening: The fire rose in a perfect cone as if suspended by the wisp of smoke that scended in a straight line to the high spring sky. Mim and John dragged whole dry saplings from the brush pile by the stone wall and heaved them into the flames, stepping back quickly as the dead leaves caught with a hiss.
How a small facist state sets up, without much resistance, in New Hampshire.
Description: Published to wide acclaim in 1976, but almost neglected since then, The Auctioneer is a bona fide classic of American literature. The story of John Moore, his wife Mim, and his mother, it is a gripping tale of greed in a small town being quietly overrun by auctioneer Perly Dunsmore. Acclaimed by writers including Stephen King, and an influence on King’s Needful Things, The Auctioneer is here reprinted for the first time in thirty years.
Joan Samson (1937–1976) wrote The Auctioneer, her only novel, and was working on her second when she died of cancer.
TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER
Opening: The fire rose in a perfect cone as if suspended by the wisp of smoke that scended in a straight line to the high spring sky. Mim and John dragged whole dry saplings from the brush pile by the stone wall and heaved them into the flames, stepping back quickly as the dead leaves caught with a hiss.
How a small facist state sets up, without much resistance, in New Hampshire.
"Whatever I've done,
you've let me do it."
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