My recent fascination with Donald Ray Pollack led me to Harry Crews who was mentioned on a Pollack jacket liner.Celebration, Florida. Home to Forever and Forever, a large scale trailer park for the dying and nearly dying. Stump owns it. He lost his right hand by traumatic amputation in a farm accident. This girl wanders into the park and hooks up with Stump. She goes by Too Much and is in search of the 'chance of endless possibility.' After a few months of getting stump-fucked by Stump's stump, she figures out that the problem with all the residents is that they have forgotten how to live. Trailer by trailer, she brings folks to life using a variety of encouragements, few of which Stump understands. Why can't they just breathe until they die.
This is quite the slam on retirement centers. Crews leaves no aspect of retirement living (if he could call it that) and in the end Too Much just walks off. I could see some of the satire, but it wore on me after a while. Not sure I'm going to be in line for much more from Crews. A real acquired taste that didn't suit me.
East Coast Don
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