New Releases by Hamilton Basso

Influential family of Pompey''s Head during the critical years of the Secession and the fall of the South.

How Cape Hatteras earned its evil notoriety as a graveyard of the Atlantic -- and how it looked to a speculative novelist on tour.

The secret life of a famous novelist and her effect on two young people in love.

"This is Hamilton Basso''s best book, in my opinion. It has something of the quality of Stribling''s Unfinished Cathedral with more vitality, better orientation, infinitely more polish of style....The story of a South Carolinian town, prejudice-ridden, and nourishing itself on the old game of gossip. Against this setting we see the third of a line of rebels against tradition, in his particular fight for the underdog, the victim of circumstances and pettiness and intolerance -- and we see him defeated, in outer seeming, as were his father and grandfather before him. It is an interesting book, for out of little things the big significance takes being. It is a less glamorous book than one has come to expect from Hamilton Basso -- and for that reason, perhaps, a truer, bigger book."--Kirkus

Set among the wealthy of Aiken, South Carolina--The Cary Collection bookdealer.