A hilarious black comedy which lampoons the ways and means of Southern lawyers and televangelists, Things Undone has been compared to the classic, A Confederacy of Dunces, and is reminiscent of a Southern Gothic Inherit the Wind.

Things Undone

Literature & Fiction

Childers, Max

United States

Wyrick & Company

Alpha Omega is about--and not about-Elvis, the dead-but-not-yet-dead King of rock and roll. At its center, it is the story of Bobby Snipes--ex-convict, brilliant guitarist, avatar of the Burning Love Temple, and "principal figure" at Graceland-by-the-Sea, the theme park of our dreams. Alpha Omega is alos a story of Arthur "Hootchie_Cootchie" Magee-murderer, genius and master showman; the Revend Virgil Joy--failed Elvis imitator and cult leader; Maurice Short-billionaire owner of Graceland-by-the-Sea; and Short's daughter Beverly-former Ronald Reagan speechwriter, PR flack for Disneyworld, and queen if illusion and substance. More than just an amalgam of these characters' stories, Alpha Omega is a comic journey through a culture which, like Bobby Snipes, yearns for a new, transcendent identity. The journey leads the reader into unexpected versions of once-familiar American places. Finally, Alpha Omega is about us.

Alpha Omega

Humor & Satire

Gibbs-Smith

The Congregation of the DeadMax Childers In his first two novels, Things Undone and Alpha Omega, Max Childers turned over the rock of Southern rural life and set loose a variety of insects and vermin-in the guise of yuppie lawyers, hypocritical evangelists, a perverted judge and an Elvis imitator. In this novel, Childers returns to the setting of Things Undone. The Congregation of the Dead is a novel that explores the connections between the past and present, family and the individual, and fathers and sons. Walter Looms is a failed writer whose mysterious and long-unseen father leaves a fortune, as well as a brother, and an array of problems, some of which are comic and some which aren't. The Congregation of the Dead is about things we claim to cherish; things that can change us in unanticipated and ominous ways.Back Cover CopyMax Childers is an Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. He was a Walter E. Dawkin Fellow at the 1990 Sewanee Writer's Conference and has won a fellowship in fiction writing from the North Carolina Arts and Science Council. Childers lives in Lowell, NC, with his wife Jean and their two sons. He is the author of two previous novels, Things Undone and Alpha Omega.

Congregation of the Dead, The

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Things Undone

Alpha Omega

Congregation of the Dead, The