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With its Southern Gothic setting, critics have compared it favorably with novels by American authors William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor . ''And the Ass Saw the Angel'' tells the story of Euchrid Eucrow, a mute born to an abusive drunken mother and a father obsessed with cruel traps and animal torture. An outcast in a valley of fanatically religious Ukulites, Euchrid bears silently his mother's beatings, his father's inturned indifference, and the hatred and loathing of an entire town. His increasingly fractured mind teems with words and horrible angelic visions, narrated by his silent Southern drawl. Raised to inevitable madness in this world of inbreeding, Moonshine , and fanaticism, Euchrid will exact his terrible vengeance on the people who have made his life one of nearly unrelenting pain. The lyrics of some of the songs from the first few albums of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (''From Her To Eternity'', ''The Firstborn Is Dead'' and ''Your Funeral, My Trial''), are often extensions of the same ideas represented in the novel. Being written at approximately the same time, it seems that these songs inspired the novel while the novel inspired the songs. To quell excessive literary interpretations, Nick Cave has said himself that the book is not a Parable . The title comes from the does not see the angel of the Lord but his mule does. AWARDS
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