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by Davis Grubb

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Davis Grubb

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978-0670122639

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0670122637

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English

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Penguin Books; First edition (May 3, 1982)

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. And there's only one man who can stop them-a country bumpkin from West Virginia named Sweeley Leech.

Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Night of the Hunter (novel) (1953).

Davis Alexander Grubb (July 23, 1919 – July 24, 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Night of the Hunter (novel) (1953) filmed as an effective psychological thriller by Charles Laughton as The Night of the Hunter (film)(1954). Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to combine his creative skills as a painter with writing, and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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The narrator is a young woman named Fifi Leech, daughter of West Virginia millionaire Sweeley Leech, a new Messiah. By. Get weekly book recommendations

The narrator is a young woman named Fifi Leech, daughter of West Virginia millionaire Sweeley Leech, a new Messiah. Sweeley's nothing if not up to date (it's 1992): Christ sounds too stuffy, so Sweeley trumpets a gospel called ""Criste Lite.

1982) A novel by Davis Grubb. The founders of an international electronic conspiracy are positioning themselves to take over the world. And there's only one man who can stop them--a country bumpkin from West Virginia named Sweeley Leech.

The Night of the Hunter. The ancient instrument seemed to suck in its breath. There was a hiss and a whisper in the silence before it commenced to clamor. Wait! wailed Pearl, edging onto the stool beside him.

BOOK ONE. The Hanging Man. BOOK TWO. The Hunter. The Night of the Hunter.

Grubb died in New York City in 1980. His novel Ancient Lights was published posthumously in 1982, and St. Martins Press published 18 of his short stories in a book collection titled You Never Believe Me and Other Stories. The Night of the Hunter (1953). A Dream of Kings (1955). The Voices of Glory (1962).

Davis Alexander Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer, best known . Martins Press published 18 of his short stories in a book collection titled You Never Believe Me and Other Stories in 1989.

Davis Alexander Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Night of the Hunter filmed as an effective psychological thriller by Charles Laughton as The Night of the Hunter His novel Ancient Lights was published posthumously in 1982, and St.

A modern epic novel about the search for truth in a world gone mad. The founders of an international electronic conspiracy are positioning themselves to take over the world. And there's only one man who can stop them--a country bumpkin from West Virginia named Sweeley Leech.

TheMoonix

The first time I encountered this Rabelaisian tale was in the trade paperback edition on the shelf of the public library in Topeka, Kansas, in 1983. (Topeka is also mentioned -- once, obliquely -- in the story, which is the only reason I could think of for this gnostic, orgiastic, ecstatic end-times tale to be on the shelf in such a notoriously uptight burg.)

Davis Grubb wrote in an incredibly rich, dense, witty Faulkner/Whitman/Wildesque style, and heroine Fifi Leech deserves no less. This very long story plays entertainingly with language and drives some modern moneylenders from the Temple. It's ribald, magical, multilingually punning storytelling and characterization of the first order.

The author knew he was dying before he finished it, and it came out just after his death. Nobody has ever heard of this, Grubb's chef d'oeuvre, if indeed they have heard of him at all. His best-known novel is Night of the Hunter. You should also read Voices of Glory.

Not as nice as the outsize trade paperback I have also bought (I've given away several copies of this story; it really is my favorite novel).

Fomand

This book comes from such a unique angle with such impossible care that it is continuously lightening and inspiring. The story arc is mostly visceral, like an extended daydream which weaves through the intimate and eloquent, which would be awkward if not so realized. The result is something childlike and pure, and not exactly easy to describe. It's an unusual treasure, but I could only recommend it to the people I like most.

Androwyn

I have read this book several times and must have given it away. So I just HAD to get it again (a good sign) - maybe so I can loan it to others. It's a good read - both smutty and transformational (an unusual combination).

Angana

The author of this book is, unfortunately, no longer on this
Earth to appreciate my sentiments toward, in my opinion (and
his, I've read), his greatest work of literature. Drawing
from his own carefully built system of ideals as well as the
mythologies and religions of other cultures and the literary
work of William Blake and others, he creates a fictional
universe of characters so numerous and easy to cheer for
that it rivals not only the worlds of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis,
but the real world itself. His almost mad lust for truth,
freedom, and equality lead you on the winding road of a
semi-futuristic mission to rescue the human race from the
false face of Organized Religion.
Sweeley Leech and his daughter Fifi serve the world of
overzealous, materialistic Christians the same way Jesus
Criste (as he is called in this book, so as not to be mistaken
for the cliched "Christ" the churches praise) served the
pompous, ritualistic, and judgmental Hebrews of his day.
The pair loves all people, regardless of whether those people
are on their side or against them, and as they go on a truly
Christian "unrobbery" of a bank in New York, they meet
the colorful inhabitants of the underworld, and say goodbye
to Fifi's lover Dorcas (yes, Fifi is bisexual). Sweeley
receives a divine vision of a great book and completes it
only to have his other daughter, Lindy (a member of the
Organized Church), submit it to the TRUCAD (an amalgamation
destroying the edict of separation of Church and State), thus
organizing and glorifying it against its creator's will.
Lindy means no harm, but doesn't relize that putting it through
"La Machine" (TRUCAD) will cause it to be praised and lauded,
but then forgotten.
On their journey to recreate the divine manuscript, they
encounter some very bizarre characters and situations, but
all of them with an air of quiet mystery and an almost
foreboding sense of apprehension in waiting for the final
climax of the book.
Just read it, It's infinitely better than I can describe in
this little review! But don't get mad at me if it offends
you. It is not for closed minds, but for those willing to
change or modify their vision without sacrificing their
entire ethos. It changed my ideas, and for that I would like
to thank the late author and his charcters, who seemed so
real that I could write a letter of appreciation to them.
This book was possibly the best work of art since the Bible,
and is, in my opinion, to the New Testament what the New
Testament was to the Old. A truly admirable book.

Zainn

Commenting on her desire to have sex with fairies (the real-mythical variety that steal freckles from the skin of inner thighs), the narrator of Ancient Lights, Fifi Leech comments: "Do I seem to your tired Christian mind too utterly depraved? So be it. Both I and my father, Sweeley Leach, know a truth - that in these furious times we must appeal to what you consider the lowest part of your human nature because it is in that region that your highest human nobility has taken refuge. Until the spiritual revolution which is coming, you will - unless you are a member of the Children of the Remnant - remain staggering and baffled and choking in the brimstone pollution of this dying age." And so the amazing adventure of Fifi, Sweeley, and the Children begins; at the same time guided by and in search of the Criste Light to save the human race from itself and its machinations.

I finished this novel for the third or fourth time. There is nothing like a book filled with absurdities and prophetic pronouncements to ground one in the reality of today.

Ancient Lights is so unique...probably why it is so little known...I suppose the closest comparison I can make is: If you're a Helprin fan, you will love this book!

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