Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Sweet-Scented Manuscript
"The Sweet-Scented Manuscript" is a gorgeous recounting of the romance, the fatalism, the rebelliousness, and the tragicomedy of the springtide of life, sharpened by all the spices of an intelligent young man's lively revolt against the deadening mediocrity of his times.
The Smut Book
Tito Perdue's The Smut Book is a wry novel about a pre-teen boy's awakening interest in the opposite sex, set in 1950 in a small Alabama town. It is a world in which healthy youngsters grow up fast, barely contained by close families, hovering teachers, and chaperoned dances. But in today's culture, it seems as decorous as a Jane Austen novel.
Morning Crafts
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 place. Out of curiosity, Lee followed him, and found himself hustled off to a strange, rustic academy in the wilderness with a group of other boys, all of whom had been semi-abducted as he himself had been. None of them knew why they were there. Some believed they had been brought there to be murdered, or worse. The Academy, it turned out, is an actual school, run by eccentric, curmudgeonly teachers obsessed with training an elite band of boys who w...
Lee
Tells the story of Leland Pefley, a cantankerous, elderly man who is filled with madness but who creates a gorgeous world of his own, filled with people with perfect souls.
Journey to a Location
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, ruminates and comments about the deterioration of modern life, ever shallow, ever self-centered, and ever ridiculous. Both the long-time fan of Tito Perdue and the newcomer will find themselves laughing out loud at the bursts of humor and wit that pop up regularly and sighing at the upbraiding of "woke" culture and Diversity that we all have experienced. Lee's return home, however, is met with an unexpected turn of events.
Fields of Asphodel
It's a long way from Grimes to Grundy Center, but not nearly so far as to the Afterworld, a hellish domain of humanoids of odd sizes, ingenious punishments, and anti-geometrical houses made of mushrooms. I could walk for miles, the vista dissolving behind me. (Ahead, I saw something too hideous to describe at this particular time.) A place of redemption? For the answer, come on in! "Imagine if Dante's Divine Comedy were actually funny, and you'll begin to understand what's going on in Tito Perdue's remarkable novel Fields of Asphodel, the journey of elitist misanthrope and cultured thug Lee Pefley through a frozen hell and a postmodern purgatory to the gates of paradise: a reunion with his beloved wife, Judy." -Greg Johnson, author of The Trial of Socrates
The New Austerities
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 and his wife Judy, now in middle age, living in New York City, where they have had their fill of crime, decadence, and alienation. So with their life's savings, a pistol, and a large collection of classical music and pilfered books, Lee and Judy depart New York bound for Lee's ancestral home in Alabama, which promises a more human existence for the trivial price of a few I-told-you-sos. The New Austerities is a surreal, sardonic journey through the cultural wasteland and political chaos of post-modern America, but it proves that with a certain amount of luck - and a modicum of ruthlessness and guile - you can go home again. The New Austerities is by turns poetic and droll, surreal and deeply moving." - Greg Johnson, author of Against Imperialism
The Sweet-scented Manuscript
America's "lost literary genius" (NY Press) offers a surprisingly sweet tale about an Alabaman who finds first love at a progressive northern university in the 1950s.
The New Austerities
COME ALONG ON A BIZARRELY ENTERTAINING JOURNEY deep into the rotting soul of America. Lee Pefley, a man who makes misanthropy look benevolent, decides to flee the decay and drudgery of New York City for his childhood home in 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 eastern states. 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.
Transformative Scenario Planning
Transformative scenario planning is a way that people can work together with others to transform themselves and their relationships with one another and their systems. In this simple and practical book, Kahane explains this methodology and how to use it.
