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Crazy in Alabama

Mark Childress

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 5155 Users | 290 Reviews

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Original Title:	Crazy in Alabama
ISBN:	0345389247 (ISBN13: 9780345389244)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Alabama Author Award for Fiction (1994)

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Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of Southern justice, and what that means about the stories he's heard and the people he knows.
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Title	:	Crazy in Alabama
Author	:	Mark Childress
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	August 9th 1994 by Ballantine Books (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. American. Southern

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Ratings: 3.95 From 5155 Users | 290 Reviews

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I picked up this book not really knowing much about it. A friend actually lent it to my husband a few years ago and my dog chewed a corner, so I bought the friend a replacement book and we ended up with the chewed copy. Years later I pick it up somewhat randomly and couldn't put it down. I fell in love with the characters and couldn't wait to see what happened next. I particularly liked the storyline about the young boys. Mark Childress is clearly a talented writer as he could tell the story

This is my second reading of this book, the first being many years ago. Of course, I remembered the Tupperware container, and I remembered the swimming pool integration and all it entailed, but for the life of me, I could not remember the ending. I was a little disappointed in the Judge at Lucille's trial, but all in all, pretty satisfying.Long story short, Lucille feeds her husband rat poison, cuts off his head, puts it in a green Tupperware Lettuce Keeper (you know, the one with the burp and

What a disappointment after reading One Mississippi, which I thought was a great book. This one has the same over the top quality, but the storyline isn't as good and the sexual content is just gratuitous. I can handle some racy scenes in a book if they are central to the plot, but I felt this was just for the sake of sensationalism. While the author tries to address a serious theme, he is only somewhat successful in that. A real disappointment.

I read this book on the plane/in the hotel during my brother's graduation from college. I could NOT put it down, and after having seen the movie, the book is at least five million times better. Peejoe goes from being a spoiled, naive kid to an enlightened, opinionated kid in a matter of months when his aunt comes along and kills her husband in an attempt to escape to Hollywood. Peejoe and his brother are sent to live with their coroner uncle in 1960s Alabama, where race riots are breaking out

Crazy in Alabama, Mark Childress, 383 pages. While this is the best Childress novel Ive read thus far, I still would recommend starting with V for Victor, which builds more evenly and conveys an almost nostalgic mood, despite its subject matter of World War II and Nazi infiltration. But. Crazy is grand Childress. At first, I thought the two storylines in this novel entirely too disparate to work : a mostly comic tale of a thirty-something woman who murders her husband and trots off to Hollywood

Heartbreaking on so many levels, yet very funny.The book deal with a small Southern town during the civil rights movement, with that town's struggle coalescing around a public swimming pool. Meanwhile, the protagonist's aunt has escaped an unhappy, psychologically abusive marriage by murdering and decapitating her husband.The aunt's murder of her husband is an interesting counterpoint to the casual brutality of the whites against the blacks.The most interesting thing in this book was not the

Crazy in Alabama kept me interested, but after finishing it, I can't really say that I liked the book. Some of the characters were not at all sympathetic, and the events in the book were sometimes too over the top for me. There was more than one story taking place during the book, and I liked some of them less than others. This book tell the story of Lucille, a beautiful small-town mother of six who dreams of making it in Hollywood. Lucille's husband does not share her dreams for herself, and he