Paperback The Black Mass of Brother Springer / Charles Willeford (Black Lizard nn) Paperback Black Lizard (no number) (1st ptg, ) Title: The Black Mass of Brother Springer. Author: Charles Willeford. Cover artist: Kirwan. Condition: 9/ Estimated value: $ Best things about this cover: An interesting variation on the "Killer's POV" www.doorway.ru: Rex Parker. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" (Elmore Leonard) The Black Mass of Brother Springer tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. This off beat novel takes place in the segregated South of the 's. In it, Charles Willeford tells the improbable tale of Sam Springer, aka Brother Deuteronomy. For $20 cash, Springer simultaneously purchases both a certificate of ministerial ordination and an appointment as pastor of a % African-American church in Jacksonville, Florida/5(20).
The Black Mass of Brother Springer by Charles Willeford (1-Dec) Paperback: Books - www.doorway.ru The Black Mass of Brother Springer. Charles Willeford. Charles Willeford () was an American writer of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, He is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The Black Mass Of Brother Springer - Charles Willeford Rhode Island Red (re-read) - Charlotte Carter Long Division - Kiese Laymon The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke Here Comes The Night - Joel Selvin Willin' - Ben Fong-Torres I'll Take You There- Greg Kot Down By The River Where the Dead Men Go - George Pelacanos.
The Black Mass of Brother Springer is a tough book to classify or even recommend. A biting satire of organized religion, a send up of civil rights through the white gaze, a testimony on the consequences of fragile masculinity. There’s a lot going on here for such a short book. The book’s writer Charles Willeford is one of my favorites. That in a nutshell is the story of The Black Mass of Brother www.doorway.rus Willeford loves to take on sacred cows. And in this book, he takes on the most sacred of all cows, religion itself. He also skewers segregationists and racists in general by comically revealing their warped sense of reality with their own words. Or minor rubbing is noticeable on the extremities. Pages or parts of the cover may be missing. FAIR (f) Very heavily read and possibly soiled, but still complete and readable. Torn covers or pages are likely, as is a rolled spine.
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