Do, Lord, Remember Me

by George Garrett

The events in Do, Lord, Remember Me take place in a matter of hours, and during that time the whole of life is split open before us, exposing the sacred and every shade of the profane. At the center of the novel is Big Red Smalley, a traveling evangelist and faith healer with a criminal past. He arrives in the small southern town of High Pines one day for a tent revival that night, accompanied by his Cartwright, who looks like a worm and is driven by his desire for money and sex; Moses, a veteran haunted by his wartime deeds and the most obviously moral member of the and Miami, a recovering prostitute who loves Red despite his transgressions. When Judith, a young nymphomaniac whom Red healed several years earlier, emerges on the scene seeking a lasting cure, an explosive series of incidents revealing the private hells of public saints ensues.
George Carrett's powerful tragicomic novel, first published in 1965, is a modern Christian parable of man's foolery in a redeemed fallen world. Red - part fraud, part miracle worker, devouring and devoured - will be remembered.

284 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

(For the British short story writer, playwright, and political activist see George Garrett)

George Palmer Garrett was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin.