"Speight's Exquisite Inn and Tap" Three short stories by Isaiah Veniamin, 1929, Minton & Sons Press, Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Mississippi, Softcover, 280 pages, three photographs. I read and reviewed this volume when cataloguing and creating an inventory of the books found as part of the "The Evart-Gunn Publishing Company Book Salvage Operation" (see first entry of this blog).
A very good read, maybe a little confusing if not familiar with the Deep South of the Twenty's atmosphere, habits and ways of life. The best story is "Carroll County", the last in the book, a strange, eerie and dark love story, a first-person narrative written in a non-linear fashion. It starts with one of the young lovers (unclear if boy or girl) mourning by spending a lot of time picking flowers and dropping them off the bridge into the muddy waters of the Tallahatchie River. We are given to guess it being the place where the lover's counterpart (of equally undisclosed gender) jumped or fell to his or her death. Throughout the narrative, there are flashbacks or jump-ahead of scenes from everyday life
A very good read, maybe a little confusing if not familiar with the Deep South of the Twenty's atmosphere, habits and ways of life. The best story is "Carroll County", the last in the book, a strange, eerie and dark love story, a first-person narrative written in a non-linear fashion. It starts with one of the young lovers (unclear if boy or girl) mourning by spending a lot of time picking flowers and dropping them off the bridge into the muddy waters of the Tallahatchie River. We are given to guess it being the place where the lover's counterpart (of equally undisclosed gender) jumped or fell to his or her death. Throughout the narrative, there are flashbacks or jump-ahead of scenes from everyday life
