Southern Fried Plus Six

by William Price Fox

1 POCKET-SIZE SOFTCOVER BOOK

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Fox, and liked several of the stories, but I perhaps was hoping for something a bit more humorous. Skipped over the dogfight one. Liked "Wilma," "Leroy Jeffcoat," "Southern Fried," "Have You Ever Rode the Southern," and "Room 306 Doesn't Tip." Still, I was expecting funnier, and more detail on life in Columbia.

[Merciful · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another of my all-time favorites, this collection of short stories is "right up there" with Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger and Welcome To The Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., although not as well-known.

It should be read if only for the wonderfully-engrossing "Fast Nerves," "Razor Fight at the St. Louis Cafe," "The Buzzard's Lope," and the incredible title story "Southern Fried."

These stories are very well-suited to reading aloud to our sick & shut-in friends, and to that special someone on the next pillow :-)

[Burnley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic collection of short stories by a South Carolina author I'm embarrassed to confess I'd never heard of when I was voraciously consuming southern writing in the 70's. Fox's dialogue is perfect, his characters instantly recognizable to those who grew up in the south, and their predicaments along with the reader's attendant anxiety are pushed along at dazzling speed. Read him.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece! Loud out loud.