This Way to the Egress

Novel of charlottesville. Combat veteran of The Sandbox returns to pursue with his buddy a Gatsby/Heart-o-Darkness exploratory peramble of hometown excess and his own otherness, through sinister Downtown and the savaging periphery. Breathtakingly accurate and sentimentally affectionate portrayal of the town, and the natives we never see. A devastating critical judgment of what we were and have become. Nicholas Martin