Congregation of the Dead, The

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.