The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores
(Bronx River Press, $15.95 pb)



Following Richard Brautigan
(Livingston Press,
$28.00 hb, $16.95 pb)










The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores is dark comedy at its most outrageous---imagine a three-way between Carson McCullers, Henry Miller, and Peter DeVries. The cover image is by celebrated Memphis photographer William Eggleston.

Following Richard Brautigan is, among other things, a ghost story. It is also a love story, a rad novel, a romancer's romance and an alleviative threnody. It is long on hope and short on structure. It is, in the words of David Swing, the world's truth with a beautiful woman walking through it. It is made out of watermelon sugar.