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Showing posts with label blackwater series. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Blackwater VI: Rain by Michael McDowell (1983): You're Gone Make Me Lonesome When You Go

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Power wills death itself in the final chapter of Blackwater , the six-volume saga of Southern life in a small Alabama town called Perdi...
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Friday, August 8, 2014

Summer of Sleaze Goes Southern Gothic

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I finally finished Michael McDowell 's epic 1983 Southern saga of the Caskey family, Blackwater , and posted a review at Tor.com as ...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Blackwater V: The Fortune by Michael McDowell (1983): A Newborn Baby with Wild Wolves All Around It

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The Caskey family saga may be coming to a close but you wouldn't know it by the activity seen in this fifth volume of the Blackwater s...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Blackwater IV: The War by Michael McDowell (1983): But Nothing Really Matters Much, It's Doom Alone That Counts

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Using his considerable storytelling skills in The War , the fourth book (April 1983) in Blackwater , his pop-lit Southern-Gothic-lite pap...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Blackwater III: The House by Michael McDowell (1983): Power and Greed and Corruptible Seed

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The story of the Caskeys, a grand and wealthy yet conflicted Southern family, is far from over: In The House (Avon, Mar 1983), the third bo...
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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Blackwater II: The Levee by Michael McDowell (1983): In the Darkness by the Riverbed...

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A few years after The Flood , the first book in the Blackwater series from the late Michael McDowell , a man named Early Haskew comes to th...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Blackwater I: The Flood by Michael McDowell (1983): When You're Lost in the Rain and It's Eastertime Too

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What Easter but that first in Jerusalem had dawned so bleakly, or stirred less hope in the breasts of those who had witnessed the rising...
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