Amazon.com: David Payne: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

"I begin with what may seem a bold observation: David Payne is the most gifted American novelist of his generation." --The Dallas Morning News

NY Times Notable author David Payne was born in North Carolina and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written five novels-- Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, Early From the Dance, Ruin Creek, Gravesend Light, Back to Wando Passo--and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story, named An Amazon Best Book and a Kirkus Reviews' Best Non-Fiction Book of 2015. Visit his author website at www.davidpaynebooks.com and see his interview with Charlie Rose: https://charlierose.com/videos/26827

"Barefoot to Avalon is one of the most powerful and penetrating memoirs I've ever read; it is fiercely honest, deeply engaging, and utterly heartbreaking."
--Jay McInerney

"Barefoot to Avalon is simply magnificent. The book has the feeling of nothing at all reserved, a kind of go for broke passion. In this complete commitment it steps across a normal threshold between reader and book. It has because of this a powerful healing effect of a very strange, unusual kind. Reading it has been a huge experience."
-- Suzannah Lessard, The Architect of Desire

Linda Barrett Osborne, Washington Post Book World:
"[Payne] understands that place most families inhabit-somewhere between love and necessity, between truth and myth, between self and the expectations, the dreams and, ultimately, the separateness of others... Writing this fine evokes a past time, but also a state of boyhood that is timeless."

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