Isle of Joy: A Novel

By Franklin Daugherty

Bombshell McCorquodale de la Rouchefoucauld is a postmodern theoretician with a partiality for champagne and furs. Her plans to establish the postmodern movement in Mobile directly conflicts with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881320782
• ISBN13: 9781881320784
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: River City Pub
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

The book reflects penetrating humor touching all classes.

I agree completely with the prior review of this novel with one caveat. The book does not single out "old Mobile" for its most direct hits. The author is clear that the real culprits reside in new subdivisions even newer than they are. While he sees the foibles of the "old Mobile" cast of characters, he tends to view them with tolerance as opposed to the more scathing view he takes of those responsible for dismantling the Mobile which the author clearly loves. It may be akin to "Confederacy of Dunces" but it attempts to teach a few lessons along the way.

"Isle of Joy" by Franklin Daugherty

A wonderfully light-hearted spoof of venerated Mobile, Alabama society (i.e. "old Mobile"), inlcuding glimpses into the inner sanctums of Mobile's mystic Carnival krewes and the familes who populate them. "Isle of Joy" is to Mobile what "A Conferacy of Dunces" is to New Orleans. However, rather than narrating the story through the experiences of Igantius Riley, sophist/hot dog vendor, Daugherty relates the events through the whimsys of Mcquorquedale de la Rochefoucauld, a self-professed postmodernist of the first order. In a nutshell, "Isle of Joy" is intelligently written and a joy to read.