A Good Man
Larry Baker'sA Good Manupdates the world of Flannery O'Connor s characters through the Bush years and into the age of Obama. Fans of O'Connor s fiction will be intrigued by Baker s imaginative reunion, in the home of the fountain of youth, of Bevel Summers with a very grown-up Harry from O'Connor s The River. Without imitating O'Connor, Baker does serious honor to her legacy. --Marshall Bruce Gentry, Editor, Flannery O'Connor Review, Georgia College & State UniversityTo readA Good Man,is to drift once again down the river of American literature we've come to love, and what a ride: fraught with fun peril and inhabited by an exotic cast of characters, each one laced with utterly convincing amounts of turmoil, hilarity, and regret. Nora James is irresistible a triumphant achievement. But most of all you ll be drawn to Harry Ducharme. Why? Because his regrets will haunt you, his concerns will pain you, and his actions, ultimately, will take your breath away. --Patrick Ryan, author,Send MeIn Harry Ducharme, the hero ofA Good Man>/b>, Larry Baker has created a main character as memorable and complex as John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom or Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe. Not since Robert Stone's A Hall of Mirrors have we been this privy to the troubled soul of a disc jockey. Fans of Baker s previous novels won t be disappointed while readers new to his work will be bowled over. --John McNally, author,Ghosts of Chicago andThe Book of Ralph