“HANDLING SIN is a raucous and jubilant as bright as a spring morning…Malone’s ear for voices and dialects, his comic timing, and his gaudy sense of the comic are marvelous.
HANDLING SIN is a comic odyssey…constantly sharp and funny…a KNICK-KNACK GEM-CRACK HIGH-TIME CIRCUS, with intriguing sideshows, and an abiding spirit of fun…This novel is some show.” -Newsday “This madcap book bubbles with frenzy from the first pages…with a wink to Cervantes and Dickens-as well as the Marx Brothers…a highly refreshing tale in which Malone has managed to make the bizarre hilariously credible.” -Publishers Weekly “Many of the characters are studiedly picturesque, as if Thermopylae were the Carolina franchise for Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon.” -Los Angeles Times
Praise for Handling Sin “Phenomenal…A hilarious success.” -The New York Times Book Review “Terribly funny, emotionally engaging, and almost impossible to set aside…a heartwarming tour de force.” -Newsweek “A picaresque comedy after the fashion of Tom Jones or Don Quixote, part generational saga, gangland adventure, mock epic and Southern gothic fable, all of which blended together prove singularly satisfying…lively entertainment…a wild and reckless adventure…exceptional good fun.” -Philadelphia Inquirer “Michael Malone exhibits the balance and showmanship of a champion acrobat, parodying every square inch of his native South even as he pays affectionate homage to the characters of the place and its people. “Phenomenal…a hilarious success.” -New York Times Book Review “Terribly funny, emotionally engaging, and almost impossible to set aside…a heartwarming tour de force.” -Newsweek “With this immense, joyous novel…Malone has written the best, most vibrantly comic book of his career…” -Kirkus Reviews Fiction Praise for HANDLING SIN “A joy from start to finish!” -Boston Herald Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance.
On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible.
A moving parable of human love and redemption, Handling Sin is Michael Malone’s comic masterpiece. And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend) set off on an uproarious contemporary treasure hunt through a landscape of unforgettable characters, falling into adventures worthy of Tom Jones and Huck Finn.
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