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All Saints' Day

by Brent Benoit · 2002

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"All Saints' Day is a southern novel in the tradition of Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole. Brent Benoit's debut movingly chronicles two generations of the Bueche family of Maringouin, Louisiana, who have been defined by a tragedy - the accidental death of their gifted, infant child at the hands of his feeble twin brother. It is an event that seems almost preordained, sending shock waves into both the past and future. The lives of both parents, Ulysse (a.k.a.

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Russell) and Doreen, are driven toward it, and in putting it behind them the child's brothers, Whitaker and Clayton, reach toward resolution while teetering on the edge of catastrophe."—BOOK JACKET.

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 236 pages

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