Brad Smith's "All Hat" would fit into this category.
It's set amidst the horse-racing community in Southern
Ontario. Much of that community would consider itself county,
and some would fashion themselves rednecks but they are
entirely city dependent, most of them living within an hour's
drive of the cities where the big tracks are located. It's
funny, reading them as they drive around the GTA (Greater
Toronto Area) in their pick-ups, skirting the more densely
populated centres to get into the tracks, race, and get back
out again, choosing the routes and pit-stops that most allow
them to maintain their rural illusions.
Of course they get up to the same power games and corruptions
found within the cities, but they do it with that charming,
gosh-darn twang. Smith's a talented writer, peeling back the
dark layers of human striving with dead-on humour.
Best, Kerry
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