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Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781588381675
ISBN: 1588381676
Label: NewSouth
Manufacturer: NewSouth
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 238
Publication Date: October 30, 2004
Publisher: NewSouth
Sales Rank: 993786
Studio: NewSouth
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Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church, Beulah Buchanan at age 16 marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents, thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Over the next six years, Beulah works in her domineering husband's cafe all day and cooks him dinner at home every night, dutifully attends church, and falls into an affair with the preacher. When she embarrasses her husband by not cooking enough food for the ravenous visiting revival preacher, Ralph "chastises" Beulah with his belt. When he tries to beat her again on another occasion, she fights back and locks him in the cooler at his cafe, where he freezes to death. This sounds like and is a Southern Gothic tragedy, but it is told in Beulah's voice, which is innocently hilarious. Beulah is an original, but readers who liked Clyde Edgerton's Raney and Mark Childress's Crazy in Alabama will hear familiar echoes of those Southern women protagonists.
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In digging around (www.claytonsullivan.com) I discovered that this is not Sullivan's first foray into fiction - see the Doubleday published Sweet Pilgrim. I read the interview of him in Southern Literary Review and was curious so bought a copy of Beulah and enjoyed it immensely. Be warned however, this is not a morality tale like Sweet Pilgrim...its pretty gritty stuff yet funny and sad all rolled into one.
Sullivan has a unique gift for capturing the essence of southern life in all ... Read More
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Told in first-person by the Beulah of the title, this is a short novel that might have fared better as a long short story and from another point of view. The author is often unconvincing in writing as a woman, and Beulah's speech pattern, an exaggeration of the storytelling style typical of her rural Mississippi upbringing, relies on mind-numbing repetition of everything said and done.
The story: Beulah Buchanan is a backward, not particularly bright teenager who marries a man much older than ... Read More
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Why Beulah Shot her Pistol in the Baptist Church is a smartly written tale of a young Mississippi girl, Beulah Buchanan, raised in the Primitive Baptist Church. When she was only sixteen, she marries Ralph Rainey, a much older man who is a deacon in the church. Beulah has no feelings for Rainey, she hardly even knows him, but he talks sweet to her and tells her she is pretty and so she imagines that life with him would be far better than the one she knew with her oppressive parents. Beulah was mistaken. ... Read More
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