Hard to Catch Mercy

Hard to Catch Mercy

A Novel

  • Author: Baldwin, William
  • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
  • Serie: Southern Revivals
  • ISBN: 9781611175219
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611175226
  • eISBN Epub: 9781611175226
  • Place of publication:  South Carolina , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2015
  • Month: March
  • Language: English

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.

  • Cover
  • THE HARD TO CATCH MERCY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Ruth and Naomi
  • The First Days
  • Mercy
  • Mr. Friendly’s Christmas
  • The Hat Shop
  • Mr. Friendly’s Easter
  • The Prodigal Son
  • The Biscuit Thief
  • The Prodigal Daughter
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Red Dragon
  • The Sin of David
  • Liza’s Wedding
  • Liza’s Honeymoon
  • Finis

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