You & Me: A Novel - Softcover

"[Powell's] characters might be all talk and no walk, but what wonderful talk it is. . . . Powell, in his recent work, has set his mind ablaze. And nothing but exquisite and deeply strange language is left to emerge from the ashes."--NPR

"Addictive, a plotless page-turner."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"One of the South's most distinctive voices. . . . Make[s] your brain dance in ways you never thought it could. . . . There's a hallucinatory brilliance at work here . . . most of all, in the improbable and covert way that Powell cracks your heart."--Garden & Gun magazine

"These old boys are Southern storytellers, masters of the gothic twist, the wry comeback. . . . Their voices become so vivid that reading the book begins to feel like eavesdropping--and a fine spell of eavesdropping it is."--Tampa Bay Times

"Delightful. . . . Ripe with juicy, drunken, rambling revelations. . . . Powell's wholly distinctive voice grabs you by the ear and sets you to laughing."--Portland Mercury

"This is the hilarious work of a master in a late-career renaissance."--Creative Loafing

"There's a wild, improvisational spirit to Powell's literary jazz. . . . You're urged on by hilarious . . . digressions, the musical lilt of the vernacular. . . . Good fun."--GQ.com

."..Hilarious, bizarre and absorbing ... Echoes of everyone from Walt Whitman to Will Rogers, vaudeville to Wittgenstein...Powell can make the most barbed issues -the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment and dread of death - slither through dialogue of zany simplicity."--San Francisco Chronicle

"[Written] with typical swaggering genius and ribald wit."--Vanity Fair

"Hilarious [and] absorbing. . . . Powell can make the most barbed issues--the power of media, class resentment, private self-judgment, and dread of death--slither through dialogue of zany simplicity."--San Francisco Chronicle

This hilarious novel, from a master of American fiction, follows two garrulous men as they, sitting and talking on a porch, argue about love and sex, how best to live and die, false truisms, the meaning of nihilism and the merits of Miles Davis, Cadillacs and Hollywood starlets of yore. 25,000 first printing.