Family Linen
Synopsis
Who dunnit? is almost beside the point in FAMILY LINEN, a rollicking comic novel which also explores the profound mystery of families and how they work, and of our intrinsic aloneness within them. Part murder mystery, part family history, FAMILY LINEN introduces the reader to a cast of characters who just won't shut up--until finally it all comes out in the wash, and the wash is hung out for all the world to see--the world of Booker Creek, that is, a little town somewhere in the mountains of Virginia not far from the North Carolina line, where everybody has known the Hesses for generations.
It starts with Sybill, a middle-aged adult-education teacher from Roanoke, Virginia, who learns through hypnosis that her recurrent headaches result from her having witnessed, in early childhood, a gruesome murder--her mother, the very proper local poetess Miss Elizabeth, killing Jewell Rife, her father, with an ax. Can this be true?
- Copyright:
- 1985 Lee Smith
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780399130809
- Publisher:
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Date of Addition:
- 2009-12-04T16:55:23Z
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.