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Southern born Patsy Dickey labored as an art/literature journeyman, was reared in the Middle Western tradition, but given to dreaming Gothic dreams, traveled back to her roots on the engine of marriage to dream again, and from that rhapsody, and experiencing the South as an adult after World War II, found Washington street...the ancestral home of BellCat & PigBoy. |
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Here’s what readers are saying |
— Ann Ray |
It has been said that one could rebuild Dublin brick-by-brick based on Joyce's /Ulysses/. Well, I felt something like that visiting the time and place that you have brought to life in this book. I felt like I was on an archaeological dig into the customs and manners of southern life from the late-1940s. Your description of Washington Street manners, the food, the speech patterns, all is right on. Of course what carries one forward, though, is the story itself. You've paced the action well, and the characters are well developed and /real/-especially Maribelle (that "beautiful piece of broken clay").
Of course the mention of real people (like Monroe Spears). You keep this story moving from dramatic incident to dramatic incident, but all of it unfolds naturally over time to the point where one feels you have indeed been watching the unfolding in time of a complex and tortured family history. What a great story you have told. —Stephen Enniss, Director |
Patsy Dickey’s novel “BellCat & PigBoy” is a page turner. Once you start it you will be reluctant to put it down until you’ve read through to the end. The plot is intriguing, her characterizations of people in a small southern town, along with vivid descriptions of the locale, are very real. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a sensitive story about some very human folks, good and bad, much like some we all know.. 