One character in this novel salivates at the sight of a gifted hen, but only roasts and eats a single feather off its body.
One character in this novel salivates at the sight of a gifted hen, but only roasts and eats a single feather off its body. This novel is set in a place where "murder is as soundless as a spout of blood, as regular and rhythmic as sleep." A decapitated head in this novel begs to be let out of a trunk. A raven in this novel constantly warns, "Turn again, my bonny, Turn away home." Its antagonist gives a girl a recipe to remove the (*) berry juice stains from her lover's face. This novel opens with its male protagonists becoming fast friends at an inn where they outwit the mythical Mike Fink, and it then transitions to the enmity between Rosamond and her evil stepmother Salome, which splits the loyalties of one of those men, Clement Musgrove. For 10 points, name this novel starring the bandit Jamie Lockhart, a satiric adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale set in Louisiana, by Eudora Welty.
One character in this novel salivates at the sight of a gifted hen, but only roasts and eats a single feather off its body.
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