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Cadillac Orpheus
CD-Audio
ISBN: 9781598875843 (1598875841)
Published by Highbridge Company
$32.95(US)
$37.95(CAN)
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about Cadillac Orpheus
A darkly comic novel of class, struggle, and crime within three generations of an African- American family in the Deep South.
Jesmond Toak is a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, Florida. A poor African-American in a hurricane alley on the coast, Jesmond has a troubled relationship with his father, Feddy, who is seeing a white woman who only sleeps with black men. Peaches Richmond, the woman Jesmond loves, is married to a threatening man they all call "Special Ed." And their pastor's gay son, Bayonne, has been implicated in the suicide by gas asphyxiation of his boyfriend, Smullian. As the deaths, disasters, and disappearances mount, Hurricane Aretha approaches.
Woodward ties together these unruly plot points with madcap glee and skill; it's not every day one runs across the word "homunculus," references to Kierkegaard, and the phrase "get kronked for Christ!" in the same book. As lyrical as Cormac McCarthy, as sexy as Zane, Woodward has crafted a genre-defying, present-day romp that reveals a side of Florida far removed from Disney World.
about Solon Timothy Woodward
SOLON TIMOTHY WOODWARD was a David R. Sokolov Scholar in Fiction at Breadloaf and a 2005 Scholar at Sewanee. His short fiction has appeared in publications including The Gettysburg Review and Shenandoah. His story, "A Touch of Lubitsch," is featured in Harcourt's Best New American Voices 2007. Woodward is a practicing physician at the Mayo Clinic.
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about Dion Graham
DION GRAHAM currently appears on The Wire on HBO. He also narrates The First 48 on A & E. He has performed on and Off-Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. Award winning and critically acclaimed, his performances and narration have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid and full of life.
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