by David Payne | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
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by David Payne | Jun 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story, by David Payne (Grove Press, 9780802123541, $26) “This memoir is the most courageous book I have ever read. The author takes readers with him as he endeavors to make sense of his relationships with his parents and siblings,...
by David Payne | Jun 8, 2015 | interviews
David Payne: An Ode to His Brother Acclaimed novelist David Payne needed many years to prepare him to write Barefoot to Avalon (Grove/Atlantic, Aug.), a memoir about the death of his beloved younger brother, George A., in an accident that Payne witnessed, was helpless...
by David Payne | May 18, 2015 | reviews
There’s a novelistic intensity to the story, with Payne dwelling on vivid recollected scenes, recreating their atmospherics and teasing out every buried emotional tremor and element of foreshadowing, but his prose also has the rawness of a...
