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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
A confusion of tone muddles Gearino's debut novel, an otherwise engaging yarn about an abandoned boy who feigns a handicap to expose religious and moral corruption in a small Southern town in the 1960s. Sammy Ayers, the 62-year-old first-person narrator looking back on his life, seems to aspire to a form of Gumpdom (the idiot who's really not an idiot makes idiots of everyone else)-but he's just a bit too literate and a bit too savvy. Abandoned at 10 by his mother at the bus station in Barrington, Ga., Sammy conceals his ability to speak. He works out an arrangement with the station manager to clean the facility in exchange for room and board; and after a brief but unsuccessful try at school, he begins to perform odd jobs around town where he grows into adulthood. Thinking he's deaf and dumb, people speak freely around Sammy, and in this manner he learns most of the town's secrets, chief of which is the fact that Tolliver Tynan, the local minister, is involved in an illegal land deal. Various forces of corruption and duplicity come together during a tragedy at an anti-Beatles bonfire organized by Tynan, who becomes incensed by John Lennon's famous crack about being ``bigger than Jesus.'' Unfortunately, as North Carolina journalist Gearino moves back and forth between the various subplots, the implications of the tragic rally and Sammy's occasional efforts to track down his lost father, he never settles into a comfortable storytelling stride. This scattershot approach dulls his characters and cuts a ragged, not very dramatic path to the novel's final revelations about Sammy's parentage. (Jan.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780671020736
  • Publisher: Gallery Books
  • Publication date: 11/4/1997
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 6.21 (w) x 8.36 (h) x 1.27 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2005

    Ten Years But Worth the Wait

    I can't believe this book has been around for 10 years and I somehow missed reading it until now. What a great story that had me laughing out loud in some places. Thank goodness I never saw the Publishers Weekly review or I might have missed out on a book I thoroughly enjoyed. Can't wait to check out Mr. Gearino's other offerings.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 26, 2004

    What a wonderful Book

    Ok, I have to admit that I did see the movie first, not meaning to until I read the 'This movie is based on the Novel 'What the Deaf-Mute Heard'...ect, ect.' Well, The movie was WONDERFUL!, and the novel is sooo much better. It's on my top 10 list of the best books of all time, and believe me that is a hard list to be on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 4, 2001

    Listen Closely!!

    This is a marvelous book. The Hallmark movie does not do it justice......the book is so much better!! It is full of interesting perspectives from good old-fashioned Southerners and their daily lives, and a certain event that made the city and its residents famous. You'll just have to check it out for yourself -- and don't cheat by reading the ending first (it's worth the wait!)!!!!!

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