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Description Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly In this arty first novel, the eponymous protagonist, a relentlessly cynical, misanthropic septuagenarian, returns home to Alabama after some 60 years up North dealing with ``children, money, jobs--life's rubbish.'' Clad in black, with black spectacles, onetime arsonist Lee, who suffers from hemorrhoids and rashes, viciously beats strangers with his cane. When he's not conversing with the wraithlike Judy, a shadowy companion of varying age, he also kicks children who happen to be in his path. Steeped in Greek classics, spouting cultured allusions to such subjects as Persian painting and Dostoyevski, Lee fancies himself a chastiser of humanity, satirist of the New South, a self-ordained Nietzschean prophet of the crumbling of the West. Alas, he's only a reactionary snob. A solipsistic little parable of spiritual self-delusion, the novel starts out interestingly but sinks under the weight of its own pretensions. (Aug.) Library Journal Rancorous, arrogant septuagenarian Lee, the eponymous nonhero of Perdue's terse first novel, wanders a bleak mental region where the boundary between reality and delusion is unmarked. He is followed doggedly by a narrator who declines to provide guideposts. Upon returning to Alabama after a 60-year absence, Lee devoted himself to baleful observation, antisocial gestures, and fantasies of using his heavy cane as a deadly weapon. Obsessed with his books, classic and obscure, Lee derives his contempt for people from his conviction of their ignorance and incapacity for thought. As he lurches toward completion, Lee regularly conjures the multiform spirit of his deceased wife, Judy, his sole companion. Hallucinatory and sordid, this discomforting story holds limited appeal. Consider where nontraditional fiction is popular.-- Janet Ingraham, Worthington P.L., Ohio  Descendant of a long line of Alabama settlers and Confederate soldiers, Tito Perdue, the problematic author of Morning Crafts and other novels dwells on a small farm that has come down to him from an ancestor who served under Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. A foreign policy isolationist and cultural reactionary, Tito has produced thirteen novels over the past 25 years, seven of which have been published. In recent months, against his better judgment, he has made appearances at book festivals in Nashville, Columbia, Montgomery, Little Rock and other kindred locations in the profound South. He expects to have to make further appearances in hopes of appeasing the anticipated demand of his future readers. Related Torrents
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