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Title: Lovesick
Author: James Driggers
Narrator: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Susan Bennett, Jeffrey LaHoste
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-04-15
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Spanning the 1930s to the present day, James Driggers' evocative Southern Gothic collection introduces the intriguing inhabitants of Morris, South Carolina - a small town where a mix of rich, poor, and in between coexist, grappling with desire, ambition, hope, and loneliness....
Amid a landscaped dotted with farms, trailers, and genteel homes, there lives a talented baker who desperately needs to win a cooking contest but must team up with a down-on-her-heels society matron to do it...the Bramble sisters, whose husbands tend to be short-lived and wealthy but whose latest prospect arrives with complications...a widow who becomes dangerously obsessed with a snake-charming televangelist...and a lonely florist who will do anything for the sake of a ruthless local mechanic. With wit and insight lurking beneath a palpable air of menace, James Driggers' debut is a tautly plotted, evocative exploration of love - and all that we do in its name....
The full voice cast includes Jeffrey LaHoste.
Members Reviews:
Alluring and Tragic
This book gives the reader a collection of Novellas that are both alluring and tragic. The yearning the the characters have for a love that is out of their reach is truly is both captivating and heartbreaking. All of the stories provide a peak into the very human feelings of love, rejection, and the sadness felt when you realize that what you love the most is out of your reach forever and no amount of trying or scheming will bring you closer to what you really want. Love truly has its "price to pay". Of all the stories, I loved Butcher, the Baker. I can relate with using cooking and baking as an escape even if it is just for the moment. I think the saddest part of the story is the fact that Butcher no longer wants to cook in the end; the ability to create a beautiful dish when everything around you is chaotic transports you into a bubble of peacefulness even if it is only for a moment. It is about being able to create something beautiful when you feel anything but. If you are looking for a great awesome read this summer, I would highly recommend this book. I dare say there will be a character in this book you will be able to relate to.
Dark Southern Lit Full of Beauty and Pain
Lovesick is a panoply of Southern love stories gone awry, with each of the four novellas offering tragedy, comedy, unusual twists, and yet evoking Southern traditions while turning them on their heads simultaneously. Iâm a dark Southern lit junkie and had just read Harry Crewsâ A Feast of Snakes before picking up Lovesick, and the two seem to complement each other. A Feast of Snakes (and Harry Crews in general) is often characterized as âgrit lit,â whereas Lovesick is Southern gothic with an injection of Shakespearean tragedy.
The first novella, âButcher, the Baker,â is about a master chef who is forced to work various low-wage jobs cooking plain foods on the railroad and at the Volunteers of America relief house. His talents as a cook seem to rival even Edna Lewisââlook her up if you havenâtâand yet, due to a life of poverty, some jail time, and persistent racism in the South, the reality of living his dream of owning his own bakery continually evades him. The characterization in this story, as in all the others, is amazing.
