"This is the most terrible thing in the world! This is the most beautiful thing in the world!" ( )

I fear this is Mister Crews' swan song. Here we have the consolidation of his career epitimized by Major, the hard put to like protagonist, the strong woman, his on- again, off-again wife, a seven foot freak, and more bizarre situations than Gainesville has truly seen in a decade. this time Harry's man is an attorney from Gainesville, Florida named Major really!?) who is cuckcolded by his "best friend," the latter who fathers Major's son, although Major is rather sloooow to see it. The baby with curious markings has an eagle (or a vulture) birthmark on its pee-pee, just as has grand-dad. Wraped in the darkness of blood and bizarre sex, one would have hoped for a deeper, more enduring last novel from Crews, now coming up on 73 years.

But then, Crews isn't Hemingway with his "Old Man and the Sea" or John Steinbeck with his "The Pearl."

He's just that lad from Bacon County, Georgia, who loved to drink, drug, and f*** ( )