- Religious life and customs, Snake cults (Holiness churches), Church history, Serpents, religious aspects
It is Scottsboro, Alabama, in the fall of 1991. A snake-handling preacher by the name of Glendel Buford Summerford has just tried to murder his wife, Darlene, by snakebite. At gunpoint, he forces her to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes.
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- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Dennis Covington
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Addison-Wesley
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140254587
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