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Ambling Toward a Point |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Barbara Bennett |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,692 Words, 10,116 Characters |
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LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY
Clyde Edgerton
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2003
252 pp., $24.95
Some people might read Clyde Edgerton's newest novel, Lunch at the Piccadilly, and say that nothing really happens. They might say that it's all talk and very little action. They might even suggest that the novel lacks a plot at all. But they would be wrong.
In his essay "How to Tell a Story," Mark Twain writes that the "humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular." In other words, the story might not have a point because the story is the point. While Twain thought this kind of story was particularly American, I would argue that these days it's particularly southern.
In conversations, southerners themselves g...
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...rport or alongside a hurried lunch at a busy café. This one needs to be read while sitting on a porch, maybe with a glass of wine or even Kentucky bourbon over ice--somewhere, anyway, where you can laugh out loud when something strikes you as especially funny or keen. And a companion would be good--one who won't mind when you interrupt to say, "Here, listen to this," so you can laugh together.
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