The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life ISBN 9781933202426

In 1936, a child is born in the mountains of West Virginia. In 2005, he scatters his past into a deep canyon of rock. The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life illuminates the journey of this boy, a constant tourist and visitor, who travels everywhere, yet belongs nowhere. Through tales of swarming hornets and swinging bullies, love affairs with the land and its people, and near death by frostbite and heat stroke, the absurd hilarity and clear, tender voice found within this story navigates a surreal road paved by the experiences of one man.

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West Virginia Press

CRUM ISBN 0-937-058-80-7

A sometimes shocking, often outrageous, always irreverent tale of a young man's rebellion against the people and the place which surrounded his life. Part HUCKLEBERRY FINN and part THE RED AND THE BLACK, the story is ultimately not about the town of Crum, but about the need to reject the comfort and familiarity of home and find a place in the larger world.

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Amazon.com

CRUM, the audiobook ISBN 0-9717801-9-6

. . . complete with music soundtrack by famed blues musician, Pops Walker.

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Mountain Whispers.com

The CRUM Session
© 2007 Richard Walker/ASCAP

The complete music soundtrack by famed blues musician, Pops Walker.

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CD Baby.com

SCREAMING WITH THE CANNIBALS ISBN 0-937058-81-5
(Part II of the CRUM trilogy)

"Between the first and last pages of SCREAMING WITH THE CANNIBALS, a new novel by West Virginia native Lee Maynard, are characters so real you can see them bleed, smell their sweat, hear their cries of libido-provoked frustration, wallow with them in the darkness of their spirits and -- God help us all -- laugh when they die the most horrible deaths."
Dave Peyton, Journalist; Critic

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