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Article: Church Folk.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Cox, Matthews & Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Church Folk by Michele Andrea Bowen Warner Books, June 2001, $21.95, ISBN 0-446-52799-8
Set in 1963, just as the Civil Rights Movement was heating up, this occasionally funny book is curiously old-fashioned. Only the bounce and tickle between the fiery pastor young Theophilus Simmons and his feisty but virtuous wife Essie Lee meet with anything like the writer's approval.
Everyone else who does the dirty outside the sanctity of marriage is disreputable, like Glodean, Theophilus' pink-clad vampire of an ex-girlfriend. His fleeing the wreckage of their relationship is what allows this pastor from Tennessee to meet Mississippi-born Essie Lee in the first ...
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