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Dairy Queen Days (1997)

door Robert Inman

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"In the grand tradition of Southern storytelling, Robert Inman weaves a rich and evocative tale of a teenage boy's struggle to forge his own identity beneath the searing Georgia summer sun. The year is 1979, and the stable moorings of sixteen-year-old Trout Moseley's life have torn loose. His mother is in an Atlanta psychiatric facility for reasons he cannot fathom, while his father, a three-hundred-pound Methodist minister who rides a motorcycle, has begun delivering scandalous sermons comparing Jesus to Elvis and the Holy Ghost to his college football coach." "Moving back to the small Southern town that bears his family name, Trout is caught between powerful ancestral traditions and the need to create an identity of his own. Deeply entwined in Trout's struggle to find himself are the rest of the townsfolk: Aunt Alma and her daunting admonition "Don't forget who are you" (as if he knew); Uncle Cicero and his offer of a "respectable" job at the local hardware store (versus the chance to work at Dairy Queen, a place with no history); the learned, quirky Great Uncle Phinizy; and, most of all, Keats, the strong-willed, sharp-tongued girl who wins his heart."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (meer)
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A coming of age novel set in rural Georgia. A motorcycle-riding preacher's son named Trout is the primary character. I enjoyed the story and the glimpse into the small-town South.
  wareagle78 | Feb 16, 2014 |
I bought this at a used book store in Montreat NC. It's a fast read, thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying. ( )
  Georgia.Bets | Sep 1, 2012 |
This is a very good piece of Southern story-telling, about 16-year old Trout Mosley and his attempt to cope with the institutionalization of his mother in an Atlanta psychiatric institution, and the slow unhinging of his father, Joe Pike Mosley, a 300-pound Methodist minister. Moving back to the small Southern town that bears his family name, Trout is caught up in the intrigues and class struggles of the townsfolk, and is strangely befriended by the crippled and angry Keats, daughter of his father's football buddy. They are drawn together and apart as the tensions of the town build to a climax. This is a very good story, well-written and evocative, but could have been improved by a resolution that truly resolved things. Instead, except for Trout's own decision in saving himself, the building events are left unsatisfyingly unclosed. True, life is often like that. But in a work of fiction, it doesn't have to be. ( )
  burnit99 | Jan 31, 2007 |
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"In the grand tradition of Southern storytelling, Robert Inman weaves a rich and evocative tale of a teenage boy's struggle to forge his own identity beneath the searing Georgia summer sun. The year is 1979, and the stable moorings of sixteen-year-old Trout Moseley's life have torn loose. His mother is in an Atlanta psychiatric facility for reasons he cannot fathom, while his father, a three-hundred-pound Methodist minister who rides a motorcycle, has begun delivering scandalous sermons comparing Jesus to Elvis and the Holy Ghost to his college football coach." "Moving back to the small Southern town that bears his family name, Trout is caught between powerful ancestral traditions and the need to create an identity of his own. Deeply entwined in Trout's struggle to find himself are the rest of the townsfolk: Aunt Alma and her daunting admonition "Don't forget who are you" (as if he knew); Uncle Cicero and his offer of a "respectable" job at the local hardware store (versus the chance to work at Dairy Queen, a place with no history); the learned, quirky Great Uncle Phinizy; and, most of all, Keats, the strong-willed, sharp-tongued girl who wins his heart."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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