Sailing to Alluvium

<p>John Pritchard's novels <em>Junior Ray</em> and <em>The Yazoo Blues</em> have been dubbed hilariously tasteless and not for the squeamish or pure of heart-and equally praised by <em>Publishers Weekly Library Journal</em> and lovers of Southern fiction everywhere. </p><p>In <em>Sailing to Alluvium</em> the third installment of Pritchard's Junior Ray Saga irrepressible ex-deputy sheriff Junior Ray Loveblood and his sidekick Voyd Mudd have become diktectives to stop the murderous activities of a semi-secret lethal organization of Southern women the AUNTY BELLES headed by Miss Attica Rummage. </p><p><em>Sailing to Alluvium</em> is another brilliant tale of the bumbling duo with an unforgettable cast of characters deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta a place both real and imaginary. The novel hilarious and moving revolves around obsessions underneath which lies the dark history of a class conflict that exists in the Deep South not among black and white but between the white haves and the white have-nots.</p><p>John Pritchard's work fits well between the singing prose of James Agee and the rustic lampoon and high humor of Erskine Caldwell. The reader is treated to a unique brand of dark comedy that closes the divide between burlesque and metaphysics fuses the profane with the sublime and explains the Deep South as no other writer has.</p>