Ne’er-do-well immigration attorney Harrison Bent can’t imagine why the wealthy and mysterious Maggie Leudecke wants him to solve her eminent domain problem. If he didn’t have an angry wife to placate, an inscrutable stalker to identify, an obsessed girlfriend to escape, and a murder to solve, a successful outcome to the Leudecke case might revive his career, pay for his autistic son’s special school, and—most important of all—help convince his young paralegal, Chloe, that the afternoon she spent with him in a cheap motel wasn’t an error in judgment, but the beginning of something profound.
If only he had some clue as to what he was doing …
“I can think of no one writing today who has so beautifully put into vital relationship officious history and literary fiction with such provocative and thoroughly entertaining results. This is a stunning debut by a master storyteller.” — Wendell Mayo, author of Centaur of the North, In Lithuanian Wood, and B Horror and Other Stories
“I don’t recall many historical novellas or novels abounding in comedy. Another distinctive technique is the pseudo-footnotes. They remind me of Nabokov’s footnotes in Pale Fire.” — Robert Phillips, author of Spinach Days, News About People You Know.
From the book: I know myself. That’s the good news. That’s also the bad news. For example, I knew I was not equipped to deal with the Leudecke case. I also knew I wouldn’t turn it down or hand it off to somebody better suited. But, seriously, what background did I have in eminent domain? Or with Mexican drug dealers? Or dead Mexican drug dealers? None. And I knew it.
CLIFF HUDDER earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Houston. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards, the Peden Prize, and the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His novella, Splinterville, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award. He teaches English at Lone Star College-Montgomery and lives in Conroe, Texas.
Author Website: www.cliffhudder.com
Purchase Links:
Amazon | Texas A&M Press | B&N | Texas Review Press Catalog
The Page Unbound is mainly a YA blog website, however we do participate in promoting non-YA selections by our Texas Authors. If you are interested in Pretty Enough For You be sure to check out other websites participating in this tour!
Tour Schedule:
July 30 – TexasBookLover – Promo Post
July 31 – All For the Love of the Word – promo post + giveaway
August 1 – Texas Book-aholic – Promo post special
August 2 – Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books – review
August 3 – The Crazy Bookseller – Promo Post Special
August 4 – A Novel Reality – review
August 5 – Bookishjessp – review
August 6 – Because This is My Life, Y’all – Promo Post Special
August 7 – The Page Unbound – Promo Post
August 8 – Books and Broomsticks – Promo Post + Author Interview
Blog Tour Organized by:
 |
| http://www.lonestarliterary.com |
The Page Unbound 