Excerpt: Joyce? Faulkner? or Guillory?

I have permission from Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary
Press to distribute an excerpt from the new book,
SCHILLING, a novel by Terrell Guillory.

Library Journal gushed about this book, calling it
"elegant, mesmerizing prose" and suggesting "this poignant,
poetic novel is recommended for all libraries." Several
reviewers have compared Guillory's writing favorably with
James Joyce and William Faulkner. The author is a retired
English professor who taught at the universities of
Washington, Idaho, and Purdue.

SCHILLING is a challenging piece of prose. Guillory's
writing has the flavor of dark chocolate -- potent,
complex, with a bitter aftertaste. It is best sampled in
small doses -- break off a bit and let it melt in your
mouth -- you will soon find yourself craving more.

The novel is set in Louisiana and Texas in the 1940s. The
excerpt I have permission to distribute, "Quero's Lament,"
is a moving meditation on loss. Mrs. Schilling, old and
abandoned, watches her farm house, like her family, fall
apart around her. "[I]n the back of her mind there was
still, as always, the dream of rebuilding."

To get the excerpt from SCHILLING, please send
mailto:excerptsnews@bellsouth.net with the subject line
"Send Schilling" and I will reply with the text -- and
*only* the text -- no file attachments or opt-in mailing
list jive. Thank you.