Lee

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LEE—Leland Pefley, to be precise—is a crusty; belligerent, and
fearless septuagenarian who is filled with disgust for the
unwashed, uneducated, unrefined masses. With his wife Judy
recently dead, and being not long for the world himself, Lee has down-
sized his life to only a trunk full of books in a rented room. A leader
without followers, Lee attacks all visible signs of the temporal world he
abhors, replacing it in his heart atid mind with a gorgeous and worthy
universe of his own making: His world is influenced by visions and
peopled with perfect souls. And in Perdue s evocation, these two worlds
come together brilliantly. In the tradition of early Faulkner and the
novels of Cormac McCarthy, this extraordinary Southern ribvel describes
die premonitions, nausea, and hastening towards death of a solitary man.
'* • i'
"[Lee] contains some of the most heartfelt, lively, funny, and wicked
rants I've ever read. . /Tito Perdue is, without question, one of the
most... Tovább

Fülszöveg

LEE—Leland Pefley, to be precise—is a crusty; belligerent, and
fearless septuagenarian who is filled with disgust for the
unwashed, uneducated, unrefined masses. With his wife Judy
recently dead, and being not long for the world himself, Lee has down-
sized his life to only a trunk full of books in a rented room. A leader
without followers, Lee attacks all visible signs of the temporal world he
abhors, replacing it in his heart atid mind with a gorgeous and worthy
universe of his own making: His world is influenced by visions and
peopled with perfect souls. And in Perdue s evocation, these two worlds
come together brilliantly. In the tradition of early Faulkner and the
novels of Cormac McCarthy, this extraordinary Southern ribvel describes
die premonitions, nausea, and hastening towards death of a solitary man.
'* • i'
"[Lee] contains some of the most heartfelt, lively, funny, and wicked
rants I've ever read. . /Tito Perdue is, without question, one of the
most important contemporary Southern writers we have—and should
certainly be considered among the most important American writers
of the early 21st century." —7he Neu>York Press
"A spellbinding work . . . Perdue has touched at a very American
nerve—a very Southern nerve which sends our lives and his imag>\
nation on a cpllision course to revelations."
—New England Review of Books
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"Written with uncompromising venom, Perdue s stunning novel tells
us more than we might want to know. The author s. obvious talent
and uncanny wit are reminiscent of Samuel Beckett." —Booklist
Tito Perdue was born in 1938 in Chile and raised in Alabama. He is
the author of five novels, including, most recently, Fields of Asphodel Vissza