326 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1990 by Vintage Books.
4 stars
(3 reviews)
In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation.
Subjects
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- African American women cooks -- Fiction
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction