The Feud by Thomas Berger Hardcover Vintage 1983 First Edition Small Town Americ

The saga of Carlo Reinhart, the quintessential American antihero, is a major accomplishment of modern literature and a history of our times. The sequence of novels begins with Crazy in Berlin and continues through Reinhart in Love, Vital Paris, and Reinhart's Women. Volume by volume, and as a series, it has received high praise.
The place is small-town America and the time is the second half of the 1930's, when school boys found girls at summertime dances in the park, and many folks routinely kept a gun in the house for sporting purposes and/or self-defense.
The Beekers, who live in Hornbeck have a series of encounters, ranging from the hostile to the amorous, with members of the Bullard family, who owns a hardware store in the adjoining hamlet of Millville. Prominent Bullards include Cousin Beaverton Kirby, who is reputed to be a redhead d*ck and packs a pistol to prove it, the childish, provocative Eva, a prematurely voluptuous teenager, and her feckless brother, called Junior, to wh