<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Set in the town of Gruel, S.C., this is the tale of a young man named Novel, a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings and a decades-old town secret while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young man named Novel (his brother's name is James; his sister's is Joyce), a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography. As he struggles to recount his life story, he uncovers-and finds himself starring in-a decades-old town secret, one that can blow him and his fellow citizens sky-high. Funny as only George Singleton can be, full of Southern mischief and wit, Novel is a crazed and crazy fictional whirlwind of drinking, motel-living, art-forgery-committing, pool-playing redneck charm.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Praise for WHY DOGS CHASE CARS <br>"Singleton's hilarious insights come early and often."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <br>"Singleton's style lies outside the usual briar patch. It's a cross between, say, Ralph Ellison and Molly Ivins . . . Singleton isn't just a killer at the hilarious one-liner, he can keep riffing on something good paragraph after paragraph, page after page."--<i>The Atlanta Journal Constitution</i> <br>Praise for THE HALF-MAMMALS OF DIXIE <br>"Singleton's relentlessly offbeat stories are a miasma of flea markets, palm readers, bowling alleys, and alligators, offering a disturbingly askew--at times, downright surreal--vision of the South."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br>"George Singleton is a madman. He's also one of the most talented American writers the South has turned out in decades."--<i>The Post and Courier</i> (Charleston, SC) <br>"Absolutely hilarious. It reads like a combination of the wry humor of Eudora Welty, the bizarre creations of Flannery O'Connor, and the crazy denizens of Edward Swift's Splendora."--<i>Richmond Times-Dispatch</i> <br>Praise for THESE PEOPLE ARE US <br>"George Singleton has the singular voice of a down-home schizophrenic. His stories are crazy mad fun."--<i>Playboy</i> <br>"George Singleton writes about the rural South without sentimentality or stereotype but with plenty of sharp-witted humor . . . A raconteur of trends, counter-trends, obsessions and odd characters."--<i>Morning Edition, </i>NPR<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>PRAISE FOR <i>NOVEL</i> <p/>What Singleton does best in <i>Novel</i> is fabricate characters from the raw material of his native South. Stereotypes of uneducated, slow-talking, slow-moving Southerners are exploited, then mashed like ripe melon on hot pavement.--<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/>Thank God for George Singleton, who makes us laugh and makes us think.--<i>The Times-Picayune </i>(New Orleans)<br><br>
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