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    Rules of '48

    By Jack Cady

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    Master storyteller Jack Cady's final novel, Rules of '48, is a stirring semi-autobiographical examination of changing social conventions, and the development of the American conscience in the aftermath of the greatest war in history. In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9781597803021
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      When I was looking for more information about this book and Jack Cady, to make sure it'd be the kind of book I'd like to read, I kept seeing praise for his storytelling abilities. I'm not really sure what about the book caught my attention and made me interested, but there was something appealing about the back cover copy, and it's true - Jack Cady is a wonderful storyteller. It only took a few sentences to draw me into the story and hook me completely.The book is about a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, in August and September of 1948, when there was an eery string of deaths, all connected somehow. It's a portrait of the people who live and work there and even Jackson St. itself, painted against the backdrop of the local bar, the pawn shop, and the auction house. Really, the auction house is the heart of the action, with the pace of the plot segmented by the cycle of setting up and auction nights.Looming over everything that happens in the book is history and the future, as certain knowledge of change that has happened and change that will come is reflected in each of the local and minor actions. The death of Charlie Weaver, the previous neighborhood auctioneer, at the beginning of the book echoes the deaths in the War only three years earlier. They are obvious marks of the slow, inexorable change that will happen, no matter what.Cady tells the story of Jackson St, of Lucky the Jewish pawnbroker, of Lester the black auction grip, of Wade the formerly country-boy redneck auctioneer, of the boys Jim and Howard who represent the future, in a meandering fashion. While the book mostly follows the hot, tense days of August, the main story sometimes stops and gets set aside in order to reflect upon the War, or the nature of race in Kentucky in '48, or the way politics mattered to the folks on Jackson St, or religion, or the still-to-come Civil Rights era. But even so, it's still part of the portrait of Jackson St, and it all flows together to make that portrait more vibrant.This is a book about that pause after World War 2, when everything in the American South was changing, yet it was also going along as best it could like before. I'm so glad I went with my impulse and picked it up at the library: I really enjoyed reading it, and I recommend it to anyone who thinks they might just like to read it, too.