The Mudflat Man/The River Boys — Doug Nufer

Fiction. Doug Nufer pays tribute to the flip-over format popularized by Ace Doubles. These two novels reflect and refer to each other, as the author pursues his mad dream to revive a crafty format of convenience as an art form of necessity. "THE MUDFLAT MAN/THE RIVER BOYS takes on pulp fiction with agility and aplomb...Nufer's appeal isn't that he performs literary stunts of the utmost daring--it's that his stunts encompass great stories"--The Stranger. "You'd hardly call either of these stories traditional, but they are noteworthy in that they both feature men who, like their author, are unconventional characters fundamentally unwilling to or incapable of meeting the expectations of the dull folks around them"--Rain Taxi.