cover image Deford

Deford

David Shetzline. Breitenbush Publications, $9.94 (217pp) ISBN 978-0-932576-76-7

An aged Oregonian carpenter visiting New York City is stricken with a heart attack that forces his stay in the notorious Bowery. For much of the novel, it seems that Shetzline's ``characters and symbols may come together in the sort of universality he is obviously seeking,'' PW suggested. ``They don't quite, but they come awfully close.'' (Nov.)