Earl in the Yellow Shirt: Novel, a

by Janice Daugharty

Book Overview

From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.

Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the scourge of their small white-trash community. Mother has died in childbirth, leaving behind her newborn and four uneducated children. Father, a toothless and slothful man, cannot muster the money for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060928980
• ISBN13: 9780060928988
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

southern fiction at its best!!!!

This author is great! I have read all her books except Whistle & I just bought it. Her dipiction of the south is the best. Her characters are very believeable. I would love to know them. Please Ms Daugharty more books with the same theme as your previous books.

A Great Summer Read

I agree with the other reviews - this is a superb book. My husband is from that area of Georgia so I know firsthand that Ms. Daugharty truly writes what she knows [including the dialect]. The summary on the back makes it sound like it would be dark and depressing, but on the contrary. I finished it feeling very positive and glad I had read it.

FIVE STAR BOOK

EARL definitely deserves five stars, if for nothing but the cover. Hey, you never know! It could be another OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU! (?) Author, Janice Daugharty

A Truely Amazing Novel!

Increadible novel! This book is an amazing work of southern fiction. Daugharty accurately reveals the life of the south in rural Georgia. Her writing style is fresh and truthful. This novel was one I found difficult to put down.

Brilliant on good, evil and everything in between.

The last reviewer doesn't know what he or she is talking about! This is a rich novel of an American South at once contemporary and timeless, and its many virtues include ear-perfect dialog -- plus a great deal more. What I like best is the character's struggle with the burden of the local morality, a struggle that results in heavy losses, but also a quirky, stirring triumph. Janice Daugharty is Dixie's latest recording angel, a true heir to the legacy of Flannery O'Connor.