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Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the pendulum began to swing.

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"Raymond Andrews is a born story-teller. His sentences have driving rythms; they fly like bees with stingers at the end. The mix of the funny and the awful gives the whole book a measure that sounds very much like real life. You get to know all the characters-and come to feel sorry for them all, the way one has to feel sorry for most people in this world. A fine piece of work."
—John Hersey