The New Austerities

Come along on a bizarrely entertaining journey deep into the rotting soul of America. Lee Pefley, a man who make misanthopy look benevolent, decides to flee the decay and drudgery of New York city for his childhood Alabama. Accompanied by his beloved wife Judy ("short and possibly getting shorter"), $19,000 in hundred-dollar bills, a supply of pilfered library books, and a pistol, Lee sets out on a bleakly hilarious tour of the easter nstates. A passionate lover of classical literature, an incurable kleptomaniac, an overwrought paranoid, and a hopeless insomniac, Lee looks at the world through uniquely hallucinatory, and definitely not rose-colored, glasses. The view is spectacularly original.