The New Austerities

<p>First published in 1994 Tito Perdue's<em style=background-color: initial> The New Austerities</em> returns from Standard American Publishing.</p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: initial>The New Austerities</em> continues Tito Perdue's saga of his alter ego: librophile insomniac and misanthrope Lee Pefley. The book begins with Lee and his wife Judy now in middle age living in New York City where they have had their fill of crime decadence and alienation. So with their life's savings a pistol and a large collection of classical music and pilfered books Lee and Judy depart New York bound for Lee's ancestral home in Alabama which promises a more human existence for the trivial price of a few I-told-you-sos. <em style=background-color: initial>The New Austerities</em> is a surreal sardonic journey through the cultural wasteland and political chaos of post-modern America but it proves that with a certain amount of luck - and a modicum of ruthlessness and guile - you <em style=background-color: initial>can</em> go home again. <em style=background-color: initial>The New Austerities</em> is by turns poetic and droll surreal and deeply moving.</p><p class=ql-align-right>- Greg Johnson author of <em style=background-color: initial>Against Imperialism</em></p><p> </p>