Benny Poteat is a tower jockey. Working hundreds of feet in the air repairing tension lines and replacing burnt-out light bulbs, he observes the world from above. He has seen a lot of things from his vantage point, but nothing can compare to the day he watches a woman die. She approaches the river that snakes far below him, sets up a video camera, and walks into the rushing water, never to reappear. Startled, he hurries down the tower to the scene of her death. What he does next will forever alter the course of his life. He does nothing. He gathers the girl's belongings and doesn’t tell a soul about what he saw. VISITS FROM THE DROWNED GIRL is a tale about the immovable path of destiny, and a brilliantly inventive, masterful exploration of the corrosive nature of secrecy.
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Sherrill paints a wryly humorous, bawdy, scatological panorama of Southern culture, full of kitsch and color but suffused with a hangdog irony...(the prose) conveys a subtly convincing sense of the enervating voyeurism of modern life." (Publishers Weekly )
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STEVEN SHERRILL is a graduate of UNC-Charlotte and holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship to the MacDowell Colony. His poems and stories have appeared in Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, and others. He lives in Pennsylvania.
HOLTER GRAHAM's film credits include Fly Away Home, Hairspray, and Maximum Overdrive. TV credits include Law & Order.
HOLTER GRAHAM's film credits include Fly Away Home, Hairspray, and Maximum Overdrive. TV credits include Law & Order.
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Visits From the Drowned Girl cd,
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This is a very well written, intriguing book with a good story; don't remember who reads the book on the cd but he does a great job.
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