
The Hard to Catch Mercy
A Novel
William Baldwin(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-61117-521-9 (ISBN)
Description
From lowcountry writer William Baldwin comes a new edition of his 1993 Lillian Smith Award-winning novel, The Hard to Catch Mercy. Including a new introduction by the author, this Southern Revivals edition makes available once more a story that touches on the issues of religion, race, and coming-of-age in the post-Civil War South, when the lines between these issues were not always clear. Set in fictional Cedar Point, a small southern community in the early 1900s, The Hard to Catch Mercy is told through the eyes of a young boy, Willie T., who is forced to confront the changing world around him. Including a cast of incredibly outlandish characters, Baldwin's novel is a wild, darkly comic tale rich with trick mules, Christian voodoo, fire, brimstone, first love, death, and the end of the world as Willie T. knows it.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61117-521-9 (9781611175219)
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Persons
William Baldwin, a lifelong resident of the South Carolina lowcountry, has been a builder, shrimper, oysterman, teacher, historian, poet, biographer, and novelist. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently The Unpainted South: Carolina's Vanishing World - a collection of songs, photographs, and poems - and the novel Charles Town.