Backside-Reviews

Reviews of

The Backside of Nowhere

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amazon.com reviews
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Move over Pat Conroy. There's a new southern writer in town! - Linda Linguvic, amazon.com top reviewer

"Set in a Gulf Coast town, this novel does more than just give us a story typical of the region. Yes, it includes high school romances, a competitive football game, corrupt political leaders and a devastating hurricane. And yes, it deals with the endemic racism inherent in such towns. But yet the story is so engrossing that I could not put the book down."

Going home again, through hell and high water - D. Cloyce Smith,
amazon.com top reviewer

"Although filled with distinctive, oversized characters, Clayton's fiction is far more Southern realist than Southern Gothic. His storytelling at times faintly echoes the nostalgia-laced prose of fellow Mississippian Eudora Welty but mixes in snappy dialogue, revelatory flashbacks, and episodic plotting, from the novel's opening car crash sequence to the near-cataclysmic closing scenes. With both drollness and melancholy, Clayton serves up a bravado performance, evoking a time and a place that ends up being somewhere after all."

The Backside takes me back! - Martha Martin

"While "Backside" is purely fictional, and top-notch entertainment at that, its larger-than-life characters practically jump off the pages."

LOTS OF FUN - Amos Lassen, amazon.com top reviewer

"Clayton shows us that truth is often funnier if not as funny as fiction. People of that area of America are unique--in fact, they are strange. This is a look at a South you have never seen before and it is as full of gossip as it is funny. Clayton gives us wonderful characters and he weaves social issues into the plot.

ROLLICKING ACTION - Jack Butler, author of Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock and Ju Jitsu for Christ

"Think Carl Hiaasen crossed with, oh Walker Percy. This novel is funny, acutely observed, full of larger-than-life characters..."

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READ! - Linda Delayen

"... brings us, at last, to a stunningly written climax that makes you feel as though you are seeing the action on a big screen and not just reading about it. From movie stars to the Ku Klux Klan and from lovers to haters, Clayton's characters leave quite an impression."

COMPELING READ - Ruth Tiger, author of The Away Place

"The Backside of Nowhere" gives a gritty peek into the lives of a Southern Gulf community and a family in need of healing."

HIS BEST YET! - L.E. Johnson, author of Veins

"This is Alec Clayton's best novel yet."

COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN - Van B. Cook

"Once again, Clayton has interfered with my sleep."

GULF COAST STORMS - Anthony J. Adam

'...overall it's a comedy, but one that is more sad than funny."

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BARBARA LLOYD MCMICHAEL - syndicated columnist, THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, THE NEWS TRIBUNE and others
Sometimes hard books need to be read, too

"For "Backside of Nowhere" Clayton draws on his southern roots and develops a contemporary Gulf Coast novel that traffics in hurricanes, floods, small town corruption and the people who stay put through it all.

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