Returning to the scene of his turbulent childhood, a dying man comes to grips with a chilling truth -- that his father was never capable of giving him affection. As he looks back on one particular summer, he realizes that much of his will to survive ...
In these stories, Les Edgerton has carved out a literary turf in the bars of New Orleans and the small towns of Texas, in the gullibility of tourists carrying their go-cups on the streets of the Big Easy, in the gaping seams between bars in the Pendl...