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050 00 $aPS3569.E287$bW48 1993
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100 1 $aSecreast, Donald,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89117181
245 10 $aWhite trash, red velvet :$bstories /$cDonald Secreast.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $a274 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aWhere the Modern World Begins -- Stranger in Paradise -- Road Skills -- The Magnetism of Woe -- Lost at Sea -- White Trash, Red Velvet -- If You See Me Coming -- Soul Food 1958 -- Caution Car -- Twilight Time -- The Necessary Arrangements -- For Sentimental Reasons.
520 $aSet in North Carolina and echoing a rich tradition of Appalachian storytelling, Donald Secreast's second book of fiction explores with deeply felt sympathy and acute insight the delicate web of family relations, the natural cycles of growth and loss within one very appealing smalltown American family. The twelve interrelated stories in this collection illuminate the inner lives of Curtis and Adele Holsclaw and their three children while offering a vivid portrait of the small factory town in rural North Carolina where they live. Evoking pivotal scenes in the life of this bluecollar family, Secreast sketches the often disappointing and sometimes tragic paths his characters' lives follow through several decades.
520 8 $aThe most troubled of the Holsclaws is probably the eldest daughter, Marleen, whose love of fast cars and vain men becomes a dynamic emotional force in the family - provoking her parents perpetual concern, irritation from her sassy little sister, Phyllis, and quiet shock from her shy younger brother. During her final year in high school, Marleen dates the senior upholsterer at the furniture factory, Gaither Drum, whose red '57 Chevrolet Bel Air has roll-pleated Russian leather seats that make Marleen dream of stripping bare and driving all the way up to the Virginia line. In the title story, Gaither's desire to win Marleen's affection by protecting her from the threatening bully Junior McLaughlin drives him to a bizarre upholstering showdown in which he stakes the seats Marleen adores for the chance to humiliate the blustering redneck.
520 8 $aIn White Trash, Red Velvet, Donald Secreast again creates fiction that is distinguished as much by its one-of-a-kind characters and offbeat humor as by what John Barth has heralded as the author's "gift for extraordinary metaphor." With unsentimental tenderness, Secreast presents a range of voices from the Appalachian foothills, inflecting them with the telling gestures and rich sense of lived history that only a sharp-eyed native of the region could render so intimately.
651 0 $aAppalachian Region, Southern$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101266
651 0 $aNorth Carolina$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108376
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3569.E287$iW48 1993