The Watermelon King: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780618221387 (0618221387)
Publish date: February 26th 2003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
A young man returns to the small Alabama town of his birth and encounters a weird "wicker-man" like fertility ritual revolving around the town's watermelon festival. The revelation of the identity of the young man's father seemed tacked on for shock value, and the magic-realist ending seemed a litt...