The Rabelaisian Western has arrived. Its grotesque anti-hero, Eugene Oregon Smonk, is a man with a purpose, that of raising as much Cain and killing as many people as possible for little or no reason. But from the first, this dwarfish decadent seems to be riding hell-bent toward a well deserved finale. Somewhere in the murky neverland of western Alabama, other aberrant personages are working their own way through a constantly darkening world. One particularly purposeless group, the garishly u


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