Lee: A Novel

By Tito Perdue

Book Overview

Tells the story of Lee, an elderly man who is filled with madness but creates a gorgeous world of his own, filled with people with perfect souls.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941423395
• ISBN13: 9780941423397
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Unforgettable character!

I read LEE years ago and loved it. The character Lee Pefley is engaging, sometimes ridiculously anti-social and also hilarious. After completing Perdue's latest novel, Fields of Asphodel, I felt compelled to return to Lee, and found it even better on second reading. I noticed this time subtleties in Perdue's use of language that I had missed the first time. Perdue's Lee Pefley is an unforgettable character. In the years between readings he stayed with me, as did many of Perdue's descriptions.Fields of Asphodel

a dark gem

In Leeland Pefley, Tito Perdue creates the classic Misanthrope with a Cause. America, Lee perceives, is in a state of decline and degeneration, her population not just unwashed, but uneducated and imbecilic. Lee - a man too well educated (largely SELF-educated by way of his cherished, numerous, stolen books) to endure the idiocy that surrounds him - is recently widowed and wants to leave the planet himself. How Perdue makes this hilarious is a wonder. Though not a fan of violence usually, I laughed out loud as Lee strikes out with his club-like wood walking stick at those he deems too stupid to live.

One of our best living writers

If Lee weren't a fictional character, he would have clocked that bird-brained reviewer from Publisher's Weekly who panned this book. LEE is a modern masterpiece, only I'm not sure America deserves it. Buy this book and read it-- it's really hardcore. Buy it for your friends. Watch the movie IDIOCRACY by Mike Judge and then read LEE.

A TRULY GREAT BOOK!

Maybe--just MAYBE--if you could harness the linguinsic magic of Marquez and Faulkner and Proulx, you might conjure a likeness to Tito Perdue. LEE's attack on the senses is like standing in a storm following a heatwave.