Edward Hoagland

Meet the death-defying motorcycle trick riders in the carnival's Devil's Tub, a man who keeps an alligator in his bathtub, a Chinese launder in Coney Island in search of love....

Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind.

This is an American masterpiece from a writer hailed by the Washington Post as “the Thoreau of our times.”

An African apocalypse by "one of the very best writers of his generation" (Saul Bellow)....