Bøger af Rita Mae Reese

The Alphabet Conspiracy takes its name from a 1950s-era school filmstrip of the same title. With a cast that includes patron saints for country girls and criminals, a Revolutionary War hero, the Wolfman, a sin-eater, John Wayne, and Johnny Cash, these poems swagger and sulk through an educational film turned film noir, replete with femme fatales in love.The Alphabet Conspiracy is about the ways in which language itself can function as a plot, keeping us estranged from ourselves, but also about the way it can be used as a tool for recovering our truest selves.

Speculates - with humour, tenderness, and a brutal precision - on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "an angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch grinding her teeth." Original illustrations by Julie Franki further illuminate Reese's imaginative verse biography of a modern-day hillbilly saint.