Bøger af David Mark Williams

Virgil and Artis Tucker are brothers growing up in a small Georgia town, traveling through life on different paths. After their father died when they were young, Virgil buckled down, worked hard, earned a law degree and returned to Jonesville to be the local district attorney, making his mother proud. Artis struggles to find his way - barely getting through high school, drifting from one dead-end job to another, making people angry and frustrating his brother all the way. But Virgil won't turn his back on his family, and is always there to pick Artis up when he falls. And now, one of the town's shadier characters has turned up dead, and even though nobody will miss Bobby Arnold, the local sheriff knows he has to find the killer. As the investigation progresses, Artis's name turns up more and more, and it begins to look like he's involved in something that even Virgil might not be able to fix.

"What can I say about a collection featuring a singing and dancing papaya, a pesky street character known as Noman, a Vaudeville mime artist who performs in an A road lay-by and a Flat Earth advocate, to mention only a few? When people put me on the spot and ask me what my poems are about, I am usually lost for words. But then I am often lost for words. Conversation isn't really my thing. Perhaps that's why I write poems in the first place. Papaya Fantasia is a bus journey, it's a variety show, a long wave broadcast, a comedy-horror B film and a cut-up autobiography."- David Mark Williams