Raise a Holler
Nov 18, 2011
Raise a Holler
Author: Jason Stuart
Paperback: 246 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615529917
ISBN-13: 978-0615529912
From the Back Cover:
A stolen UFO, the ghost of a dead outlaw, a super-powered toddler, a traveling rocket salesman, 3 fat hags, a nuclear explosion... And one 1967 SS Chevelle with four on the floor.
This is the story of the late outlaw Hank Grady whose legend still echoes throughout Culloden County, Mississippi to this day. Told through alternating perspectives of those who knew him (and many who didn't) it peels backward through time the layers of this enigmatic figure and finally arrives at his unbelievable origin, one tied directly with the detonation of a 5.3 kiloton atomic bomb in South Mississippi in the 1960's.
Idgie’s Words:
This is a fun, fun, fun tall tale of a story. I totally enjoyed immersing myself in the crazy and unbelievable antics of Hank Grady and the people around him.
This really is a throwback book – bigger than life stories, yarns even, that while you shake your head and think to yourself, “Yah right” you can’t tear away.
Jason has managed to get the speech patterns, expressions and mannerisms of the Deep South throwback towns exactly spot on. I loved reading a phrase that I haven’t heard since I was a small child used perfectly in a sentence. Include all of this with a story that’s bigger than life and you have a book that causes you to smile quite often while reading, while throwing out the occasional full blown snort.
I found I quite liked Hank and wouldn’t mind sitting on the tail end of a truck bed with him, jawing for a time while sipping on some moonshine.
Oh, the 3 hags……….shudder.
(The Dew has two of the stories in its archives: Okatooga Warhammer and Trinity, plus a few other little extras.)
Go read excerpts from Raise a Holler here and also the front page of the Dew will have an excerpt this morning!
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This special limited first edition features six additional short stories (originally published in various literary journals and magazines, including The Dew). These stories provide further development and insight into the book's central character, the late outlaw Hank Grady.
