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Boy with Loaded Gun: The Confessions of Lewis Nordan by Gregory L. Morris In the hot summer of 1981, in a place called George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Lewis (Buddy) Nordan began constructing, as Nordan tells the story, the life of his most memorable character, Sugar Mecklin. Hastily preparing for a reading and having nothing at hand to read, Nordan started putting paragraphs to legal paper, inventing the story that would become "Sugar Among the Freaks" and the character who would occupy his imagination for the next twenty years. Nordan, in his own self-conscious recollection of the moment, puts it this way: "to say this only slightly more dramatically than I felt it at the time--Sugar Mecklin and his whole strange family were being born beneath my hand" ("Foreword" xxii). Sugar and his "whole strange family" would come to life in the stories in Nordan's first two collections, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair (1983) and The All-Girl Football Team (1986), and more fully (if not coherently) in the novel-in-stories, Music of the Swamp (1991). In these fictions, Nordan creates a biography of both place and character, shaping the world of Sugar Mecklin as he grows up in
The Southern Literary Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 19, 2004
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