Southern Nights

God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that makes them three of Gifford' best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.     Night People , Arise & Walk , and Baby Cat-Face stand out for their sheer velocity; for the copious, raw violence; for the invented rel