The Watermelon King
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780618400812 (0618400818)
Publish date: November 14th 2003
Publisher: Mariner Books
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...