It's a yearly custom in Mystic, Georgia for the townspeople to hold a Rattlesnake Roundup at which they crown a rattlesnake queen, hold a snake fight, and eat rattlesnake for supper. This novel is the story of one town resident, Joe Lon Mackey--unhappily married, illiterate, and bitter--who goes on a murderous rampage at the snake roundup. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All r... more...

It's a yearly custom in Mystic, Georgia for the townspeople to hold a Rattlesnake Roundup at which they crown a rattlesnake queen, hold a snake fight, and eat rattlesnake for supper. This novel is the story of one town resident, Joe Lon Mackey--unhappily married, illiterate, and bitter--who goes on a murderous rampage at the snake roundup. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.   less...

Lucinda Roy makes a living, breathing reality of women,s history. Her poems compel us into the world she envisions, whether through the eyes of a slave or the eyes of a contemporary woman remembering Africa, remembering her dead mother, remembering nights of passionate love. And in the end the poems reveal how all these worlds are inevitably connected - how the slave, Lucy, still walks down the gr... more...

Lucinda Roy makes a living, breathing reality of women,s history. Her poems compel us into the world she envisions, whether through the eyes of a slave or the eyes of a contemporary woman remembering Africa, remembering her dead mother, remembering nights of passionate love. And in the end the poems reveal how all these worlds are inevitably connected - how the slave, Lucy, still walks down the grand staircase of the plantation mansion, and how the poet,s mother is still close by, waiting to be   less...