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Very enjoyable book! Feb 03, 2010
In a sense I felt a part of the character's lives, perhaps because this book's action takes place in a real community and references real people. I was compelled to continue reading until the conclusion. This book reminds me of one of my favorite titles, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, in that it does a great job of dramatizing even the every day aspects of life, and when the extraordinary occurs how can you put the book down? I highly recommend this novel.
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Cuckold Creek Feb 11, 2009
Cuckold Creek" by Enis St. John weaves fact and fiction into a fascinating tapestry of mystery that links realms rarely found together --a Southern Maryland College, the CIA, a millionaire intent on disowning a daughter, athletic coaches with no moral compass, and an underclass beer joint right out of Thomas Wolfe. Using actual facts and experiences, he tells his story with humor and dispatch. The reader is rushed along from the mundane ministrations of county functionaries, through scandals and misbehavior on the playing fields, to unexplained deaths -- murders? -- all surrounding a harried, slightly bemused academic trying to hold his college together in the absence of its peripatetic president. The fact that St. John roots this sad-funny tale in a real place and references real people gives the story the immediacy of recent headlines. And his character delineation is highly inventive from the sisters who have to clear out the murder-death house to a handyman with underworld tendencies -- they are all memorable. In short, this is a compelling and unique book, a mystery searching for solutions, a loving portrait of a place and its citizens. A literary romp well worth reading.
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