God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that makes them three of Gifford' best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.
Night People, Arise & Walk, and Baby Cat-Face stand out for their sheer velocity; for the copious, raw violence; for the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and for all the other horrors that somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the many unforgettable characters and the things these characters say so winningly that we've never heard anyone say before.
- ISBN10 0862418917
- ISBN13 9780862418915
- Publish Date 4 May 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Rebel inc.
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 480
- Language English