Dixie Chicken

by Frank Ronan

From the award-winning author of The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton, this is a novel in which God plays narrator, death is the mystery and sex the possible key. When the successful and adored Rory Dixon's car goes over a cliff into the Irish Sea, his wife Helen is convinced he has been murdered.

A journey through a landscape that includes incest, adolescent despair, drug abuse, suicide fixation, sex killers, corrupt politicians, repulsive old lechers, necrophiliacs, unfrocked priests and corpses dripping blood through the drawing room ceiling into guests' wine glasses.

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Ruby Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first read this book in 1997 whilst travelling round New Zealand.
Fiction books were expensive in New Zealand, so I read this whole book whenever I was in a library, so read it in a disjointed way across North and South Island. Not ideal in my opinion.
So, I decided to re-read it in 2023 at home and loved the character all over again.
It's a fun book written from the perspective of God and how he feels about Rory Dixon. It's a crazy, quirky book, which is not for the prude, as anything can and does happen in this book.
I love Frank Ronan's writing style, it's unique and fun and I love how his protagonists almost have God-like status, always on a pedestal. The same is true of The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton, which is definitely worth a read.
I'm really surprised Frank Ronan's books aren't more popular.

[Valentine8 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spannend zu lesen. Komisch Leute. Nicht so einfache Themen. Die Tochter tat mir Leid.