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COCKFIGHTER by Charles Willeford
5 stars but I aint crazy about the subject.
Frank Mansefield, of Georgia, is OCD for cock fighting, and dreams of becoming the best. You'll learn everything there is to know about chickens.
This book is reputed to be Willeford's masterpiece. And the man knew how to boil people down to their souls. He knew how to expose how people use each other. His wares are real noir. He spent twenty years in the US Army and became a dirty book writer. Much of his writing is too extreme for LIT. Its too violent and the sexual content is beyond what Laurel tolerates. When the story starts Frank lives in a trailer with a 16 year old girl her fruit tramp parents gave to him. Frank is around 36 years old. He loses her in a bet with a 45 year old married guy.
The whole book is a collection of character sketches tied together by Frank's bad luck and misfortunes. The Frank character is smart and devoted to chicken fighting, but a total waste of humanity when it comes to women and steady work. Women exist to fuck. A job is something you do as a last resort. The army drafted him during the war, and that was the only job he ever had. Bernice Hungerford gave him fifty dollars for sex. Women want him for sex, but the chickens own his soul.
A few critics slam the book as racist. In the book, blacks are few and far between, and are house servants who make brief cameo appearances answering doors and summoning their employers. It was common back in the 50s.
Almost all the violence pertains to the cock fighting. Lotsa dead chickens.
5 stars but I aint crazy about the subject.
Frank Mansefield, of Georgia, is OCD for cock fighting, and dreams of becoming the best. You'll learn everything there is to know about chickens.
This book is reputed to be Willeford's masterpiece. And the man knew how to boil people down to their souls. He knew how to expose how people use each other. His wares are real noir. He spent twenty years in the US Army and became a dirty book writer. Much of his writing is too extreme for LIT. Its too violent and the sexual content is beyond what Laurel tolerates. When the story starts Frank lives in a trailer with a 16 year old girl her fruit tramp parents gave to him. Frank is around 36 years old. He loses her in a bet with a 45 year old married guy.
The whole book is a collection of character sketches tied together by Frank's bad luck and misfortunes. The Frank character is smart and devoted to chicken fighting, but a total waste of humanity when it comes to women and steady work. Women exist to fuck. A job is something you do as a last resort. The army drafted him during the war, and that was the only job he ever had. Bernice Hungerford gave him fifty dollars for sex. Women want him for sex, but the chickens own his soul.
A few critics slam the book as racist. In the book, blacks are few and far between, and are house servants who make brief cameo appearances answering doors and summoning their employers. It was common back in the 50s.
Almost all the violence pertains to the cock fighting. Lotsa dead chickens.
