Download or read book Rides of the Midway: A Novel written by Lee Durkee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this eruptive debut novel, Durkee...has just kicked in the door of Southern literature."—Salon.com Meet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist faith healer. Noel, who prefers The Exorcist to Ecclesiastes, must navigate a world of Bible-thumpers, born-again Christians, and a stepfather who bears an uncanny resemblance to Billy Graham. Darkly comic and lyrically moving, Rides of the Midway introduces a formidable new talent in contemporary fiction.