Tito Perdue

• Aug-1994
• / General Fiction
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First published in 1994, Tito Perdue's The New Austerities returns from Standard American Publishing.The New Austerities continues Tito Perdue's saga of his alter ego: librophile, insomniac, and misanthrope Lee Pefley. The book begins with Lee an...

• Oct-1994
• / Literary
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This is the story of Benjamin Reuben, a junior member of a large and highly uneducated family lodged in one of the more sterile regions of Alabama. Before The Great War (1914-1918), he acquired a woman and a parcel of farmland through forced marriage...

• Jul-2007
• / Literary
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After an absence of several decades, the aging and curmudgeonly Leland Pefley returns to his hometown to find that nothing is as he remembers it, and everything has gone to the dogs. Armed with nothing but a cane to ward away vice and to impose de...

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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Cult favorite author Tito Perdue whom the New York Press called America s Lost Literary Genius here reemerges with this new novel about the peculiar afterlife of Leland Pefley.

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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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 pla...

• May-2014
• / Fantasy
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Under the tutelage of Lee Pefley, Reuben learned what must be done. And when the time came, he left Alabama and took up the task of conquering the world, or at least the Occidental share of it. This novel is a chronicling of Reuben's necessary, great...

• Nov-2015
• / Historical
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Alabama in the late nineteenth century still labors in the "Age of Mules," an era which demands hard labor for little return. William Pefley is intent on building a legacy amongst what he views as the godless and unworthy people of his county, a lega...

• Jan-2016
• / Historical
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The second volume of William's House focuses on Young Albert, the youngest addition to the Pefley family, and his formative childhood years. Albert's growing relationship with his family and the development of his perception of the world are set agai...

• Apr-2016
• / Historical
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This, the third volume in Tito Perdue's tetralogy, pulls the reader further into Young Albert Pefley's narrative, following his nascent career in engineering and many high-risk detours along the way. We follow Albert through his studies at the academ...

• Nov-2016
• / Historical
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The final installment in Tito Perdue's William's House tour de force, The Bachelor continues to chart young Albert Pefley's journey to manhood, this time across sea crossings and in a foreign land. Having secured work with an exotic engineering fi...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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Arrogance and romance

Cynosura is a feverish love story between a non-ordinary Tennessee farm girl of supernal physical beauty and an estranged youth possessed of exceptional intellectual ambition.

The girl, a gifted and hard-working...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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A genius who has learned the hard way to hide his light under a bushel in postmodern New York City, Philip is a young protagonist with a soul from a bygone era. Slowly revealing himself in the stream-of-consciousness narrative to be a superb Class...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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The world has descended into a post-modern quagmire of quotas, affirmative action, mob rule and degeneracy. High in the mountains of North Carolina lies “The Ark,” in which are gathered a select coterie of individuals from varying fields and b...

• Feb-2018
• / Literary
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Tito Perdue’s Though We Be Dead, Yet Our Day Shall Come is a novella about the advancement of American civilization as revealed by the sixtieth high school reunion of the Class of 1956 from a small Alabama town. The narrator sardonica...

• Jun-2018
• / Literary
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"It happens more than just sometimes that overly refined persons like thee and me may opt to turn away from ordinary things and seek entry into a more perfect world than this one. I'm thinking about art galleries, concert halls, coin and stamp col...

• Apr-2019
• / Literary
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• Sep-2019
• / Science Fiction
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“One of the drollest and most inspired creations of Tito Perdue’s imagination is the ‘escrubilator,’ a piece of technology whose multifarious features and functions make it as impossible for the reader to visualize as Gogol’s nose that a...

• Sep-2019
• / General Fiction
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Hilarious, brave, and tinged with the inescapable sorrow of death’s inevitability, The Sweet-Scented Manuscript is a portrait of youth itself.

The 1950s are coming to a close, and young Leland Pefley is off to university. He knows only two...

• Jul-2020
• / Dystopian
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When an individual or a whole race becomes aware of its impending doom, atavistic things happen. This is the story of a cartel of some two score of resolute but highly idiosyncratic men resolved to reset post-modern American society. Septuagenarians ...

• Dec-2020
• / Magical Realism
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He had a telescope in fixed position, a half-dozen semi-domesticated pet raccoons, and a trove of alcoholic beverages. Had other things, including the normal pots and pans, drinking vessels, a .357 magnum 8-shot Smith and Wesson revolver and, at grea...

• May-2021
• / General Fiction
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Journey to a Location, in an interesting blend of dystopian novel-cum-memoire, peppered with unpredictable streams of consciousness, tells the story of Lee's journey to a city in his home state. Lee, the educated, curious, and yet simple Southerner, ...

• Dec-2021
• / Literary
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Really, how can human beings ever hope for transcendence while still attached to physical bodies, unsightly paraphernalia hindered by illnesses, old age, economic requirements and the rest. How much better if the best of us, you and me, were transpos...