Killer Diller: A Novel

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Lois. Best, 10 Feb '94." Small tear to top jacket edge, jacket spine head bumped, jacket lightly toned. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1991 Hard Cover. 247 pp. Shuttled among orphanages and foster homes since he was 11, Wesley Benfield - newly converted - is trying to turn over a new leaf. But two things are keeping him from a straight-and-narrow kind of existence: lust for Phoebe, and a National Steel Dobro bottleneck guitar. There's more than one way for an ungainly white boy to find a little soul, and Wesley strikes out on his own path of redemption.