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Newspaper Article
A RICH FEAST FROM A MYTHIC SOUTH
2002
Overview
[Marly Youmans Farrar] engages the reader with prose that is sonorous, elegant and, at times, colloquial. When Agate relates her own story it is told with lavish, book-learned eloquence, and her autobiography, a tale of torture and redemption, resonates throughout the novel. Agate's story is painful, yet Youmans manages to make it both heart- rending and affirmative. The narrative progresses slowly, Biblical and intense, replenishing itself with great gulps of history and panorama. Youmans writes like the child of Allan Gurganus and Toni Morrison, with a gift for sentences that carry theme and incident in their sheer craft. And, the use of the \"ancient tale\" structure is inspired. Youmans subtitles each chapter as if it were an age-old ballad: \"Concerning wolves and wolf pits And a fight in the burning wilderness,\" or \"Two narrative of loss, Comprising a picnic on the last careless day And a pilgrimage to harvest wands.\" Its oracular nature touches deep well-springs of storytelling.
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Gannett Media Corp
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