Granddaddy's Dirt. (fiction reviews).Granddaddy's Dirt by Brian Egeston Carter-Krall Publishers, October 2001 $23.00, ISBN-0-967-55059-9 Writer Brian Egeston mixes a potent concoction of family scandal, long-buried secrets and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was to create an enthralling en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. and modestly engaging new book. Granddaddy's Dirt is the story of Kyle Scales, a young man who is forced to come to terms with the dirty little secrets that suddenly come to light about his grandfather, Andrew Scales. The elder Scales is a revered and highly regarded southern businessman, who has been put on a pedestal On a Pedestal is an EP by the Swedish band Adhesive, released in 1998. Track listing
Egeston, who lives in Georgia, left a cushy cush·y adj. cush·i·er, cush·i·est Informal Making few demands; comfortable: a cushy job. [Origin unknown. job in corporate America a few years ago in order to pursue his dream of writing. He self-published his first novel, Whippins Switches and Peach Cobbler, in 2000. Once again he has managed to spin a tale that implores the familiar. --Glenn Townes is a New Jersey-based writer and contributor to BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received |
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