It was close to stubbing your toe on an otherwise perfect day, million dollar homes on the riverfront and five hundred yards away broken-down trailers lacking fresh running water, kids without shoes and their parents on welfare escaping it all with alcohol and unbridled drug use. The prologue illustrates how Robert Winchester viewed The South he discovered. Is it true?ĭD: If you look at the socio-economic issues, the exaggerated gap between rich and poor or even that muddy area once referred to as the middle-class, then yes. AM: “The funny thing about The South,” says the narrator in the prologue to your debut novel, Deep and Dirty, “is that it’s pretty, an odd choice of word but highly practical, take away the disasters sitting on almost every other corner and you’ll notice nature has this way of battling human influence by blotting out those ghastly sore spots.” Wow.
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