Re: Name Check

Clarence Major goes back a long way. I discovered his existence 
almost 40 years ago, but I can't remember what I ever read by him. 
I'm pretty sure I haven't read any of his novels, but now I'm 
starting to feel the itch.  Tell us more about this novel.

At 02:44 AM 7/13/2008, d_cozy wrote:

>Reading Clarence Major's novel, Bone Structure, I came across this:
>
>The next day they make a movie from his novel and Cora stars in it.
>Dale has the male lead. Cora and Dale are dirt farmers in the South.
>They do everything but fuck. They steal chickens and read
>science-fiction novels by brilliant writers like Chop Belany. The
>white folks get angry and threaten to burn their house down and run
>them into the woods. But Dale and Cora hold their own. They have a
>stack of rocks behind the front door; they will fight till the end.
>
>(And why did no one ever tell me about Clarence Major? If Bone
>Structure is representative of his work, he's a writer to be reckoned
>with.)


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