Tongues of Flame (Deep South Books)
These unpretentious short stories focus on the modern South, portraying the protagonists, both black and white, at moments of special tension or insight. In the title story a decaying country church hires a professional evangelist for inspiration. Other stories depict a jilted woman on the edge of madness and a gathering of the new and old South as represented by the mourners at an ailing mother's bedside. Brown, whose work has appeared in McCall's and Grand Street , does not here possess the depth of the most accomplished Southern contemporary writers, such as Eudora Welty and Peter Taylor, but her competent, straightforward tales will please general readers seeking high-quality leisure fare. Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.