The driftless zone, or, A novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities
By: by Rick Harsch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: South Royalton, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- Fiction.; City and town life -- Fiction.; La Crosse (Wis.) -- Fiction.; Wisconsin -- Fiction.
Other titles: Driftless zone; Novel concerning the selective outmigration from small cities
Description: Spleen, the novel's hero (a man about as decisive as Hamlet), falls in love with The Sneering Brunette and is pulled into an intrigue that involves a psychotic hit man who eats live pigeons, a snitch named The Fag With No Eyebrows, a reformed snitch named Billy Verite, and two crooked policemen, Stratton and his partner, the black undercover cop in the white city.

The plot that unfolds is a dance with the absurd, its wisdom coming from B-movie actors and philosophical taxi drivers, all written with a love and affection for a people and a side of town that are hopelessly without either.