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Title: The Ballad of Little River: A Tale of Race and Restless Youth in the Rural South by Paul Hemphill ISBN: 0-684-85682-4 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant depiction of the american outback
Comment: Hemphill captures each character, and has unerring diction, in this profile of life in rural southwestern Alabama. His detailed portrait of Little River and Baldwin County could stand in for any number of out-of-the-way old places in the New South. Contrary to other reviewers, I found that Hemphill does arrive at a truth, even if it isn't what many might hoped to find, namely, a Klan conspiracy to burn African-AMerican churches. Hemphill finds this, and it was news to me: the African-American family is stonger than the Anglo-American family in the Outback.

Rating: 5
Summary: racism born from despair
Comment: An excellent book! It reminds me somehow the situation in what formerly was called "East Germany". The thing I like the most, is that the author doesn't fall into the trap of segregation between "them" and "us". He talks to everyone and nearly everyone is talking to him. Read it!

Rating: 2
Summary: The Ballad of Little of Anything
Comment: Digging through Hemphill's rambling Faulknerian sentences, disfigured O'Connor-like characters, and sensationalized tabloid-type facts, I couldn't find a plot. And I knew what was going to happen. Mr. Hemphill obviously found so much gossip he couldn't stand to leave any of it out, making for a long and winding trip up and down and around and through Highway 59.

And while many of his facts were correct, many were terribly skewed: I suppose making for a more salacios tale. Read at your own risk of falling to sleep.