Novel（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　”Sly, intelligent, hilarious.” (The Charlotte Observer )PRAISE
FOR THE HALF-MAMMALS OF DIXIE “Singleton’s relentlessly offbeat
stories are a miasma of flea markets, palm readers, bowling alleys,
and alligators, offering a disturb-ingly askew-at times, downright
surreal-vision of the South.” (Entertainment Weekly )

　　Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by
George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a
young man named Novel (his brother’s name is James; his sister’s is
Joyce), a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange
doings while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography. As
he struggles to recount his life story, he uncovers-and finds
himself starring in-a decades-old town secret, one that can blow
him and his fellow citizens sky-high. Funny as only George
Singleton can be, full of Southern mischief and wit, Novel is a
crazed and crazy fictional whirlwind of drinking, motel-living,
art-forgery-committing, pool-playing redneck charm.

　　George Singleton holds a degree in philosophy from Furman
University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro. Nearly seventy of his stories have been
published nationally in magazines and anthologies. Singleton
teaches writing at South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts
and Humanities. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina, with the
clay artist Glenda Guion and their eleven dogs and one cat.