A light-hearted survey of Early American Literature - JUST RELEASED!

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AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM IN PB FOR $15.95!
This first briar patch book in a series is not about rabbits or tar babies or, to be perfectly honest, even briar patches. It's about the writings of the first Americans. (No, the Indians were not the first Americans: They were here first but they weren't Americans. Change the subject.) So, is this an anthology? If you happen to be a college student and need to take the first survey course in American literature, this might be considered an anthology. In fact, it might save your life if you have to pass that first course in American lit as a prerequisite to another course. And the lovely thing about it is that it covers the subject in a casual and (quite often) laid-back way that won't leave you warped for life.

This series of tour guides will include one about modern American literature (which every literate American, wetback, exiled Cuban, and descendant of the aborigines should spend some time with), another about William Faulkner's little briar patch known as the Yoknapatawpha Saga, and still others about Southern literature (outside Lafayette County, Mississippi, and the literature of Old England).

This volume, like its companions in the Briar Patch Series, is a must for college sophomores who must take one or more knotty courses in American literature. It was specifically designed for those pitiable souls who, for one reason or another, have to take a survey course in early American literature. It should also be a great help to the individual who would like to be thought knowledgeable in the utilitarian writings of our Forefathers: the Pilgrims, the Puritans, the early Republicans (who were actually Democrats), and Benjamin Franklin. And, of course, every professor who must teach this formidable period of our literature will wish to order a complimentary copy.

Editor's Note: The author of these tour guides lives in a thicket outside the antebellum town of Holly Springs, Mississippi, with his wife Sharon. They raise Arabian horses and white feral cats in their spare time.

Briar Patch One is in paperback (436 pp., 6X9) and is available at Amazon.com and other chain book sellers. It will be at Barnes & Noble if that outfit ever gets its stuff together.