A Feast of Snakes strongly echoes the emphasis in other Crews novels on the cult of the physical: the people of Mystic, in their worship of football and its heroes, resemble the bodybuilders and their devotees in This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven (1970), Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit (1971), The Gypsy's Curse (1974), All We Need of Hell (1987), and The Knockout Artist 1988). In these works, Crews consistently uses.....
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