Morning Crafts

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Thirteen-year-old Leland Pefley was minding his own business, enjoying a
day's fishing near his father's farm in Tennessee, when the odd, well-dressed
and well-spoken man from the city appeared, inviting Lee to accompany
him to a more interesting place. Out of curiosity, Lee followed him, and
found himself hustled off to a strange, rustic academy in the wilderness with a
group of other boys, all of whom had been semi-abducted as he himself had
been. None of them knew why they were there. Some believed they had been
brought there to be murdered, or worse. The Academy, it turned out, is an
actual school, run by eccentric, curmudgeonly teachers obsessed with
training an elite band of boys who will grow up with a passion to preserve
some vestige of genuine culture amidst the tide of degeneracy which they
see ruining the modern world. To this end, the boys' heads are stuffed, day in
and day out, with mathematics, Ancient Greek and classical music, among
other subjects.... Tovább

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Thirteen-year-old Leland Pefley was minding his own business, enjoying a
day's fishing near his father's farm in Tennessee, when the odd, well-dressed
and well-spoken man from the city appeared, inviting Lee to accompany
him to a more interesting place. Out of curiosity, Lee followed him, and
found himself hustled off to a strange, rustic academy in the wilderness with a
group of other boys, all of whom had been semi-abducted as he himself had
been. None of them knew why they were there. Some believed they had been
brought there to be murdered, or worse. The Academy, it turned out, is an
actual school, run by eccentric, curmudgeonly teachers obsessed with
training an elite band of boys who will grow up with a passion to preserve
some vestige of genuine culture amidst the tide of degeneracy which they
see ruining the modern world. To this end, the boys' heads are stuffed, day in
and day out, with mathematics, Ancient Greek and classical music, among
other subjects. Rankling at first under the teachers' bizarre, authoritarian
methods, Lee sticks around, knowing that he can slip away at any time he
wants. But, for some reason, he doesn't, and before long, he finds that his
teachers are starting to make quite a lot of sense
Tito Perdue was born in 1938 in Chile, the son of an electrical
engineer from Alabama who was working there at the time.
He currently lives in AJabama with his wife Judy. Morning
Crafts is his seventh novel to date.
"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/' - New York
Press
"[Perdue's] language is vitriolic and hallucinatory, yet surprisingly lucid,
producing a portrait both exceedingly strange and troubling." - The New
York Times Book Review
"[Perdue possesses} magically evocative descriptive powers, pungent wit and
iconoclastic point of view." - Publishers Weekly Vissza