The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South)

The View from Pompey's Head: A Novel (Voices of the South) by Basso, Hamilton. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780807123348.

Sweet, sleepy -- beautiful -- old Pompeys Head, South Carolina. Anson Page thought hed ground it out of his life for good. Now a Manhattan lawyer representing a large publishing house, hes returning to his hometown after fifteen years to investigate the mystery surrounding one of his clients authors, a major American novelist who lives on nearby Tamburlaine Island. Both painfully familiar and irrevocably altered, the landmarks and people in Pompeys Head resurrect for Page the sweep of his past life. As he sets about resolving business matters, he collides headlong with the enduring power of lineage to determine belonging and dominance, exclusion and shame, and the realization that leaving does not mean escaping.A deft interlacing of recollection and suspense, The View from Pompeys Head is Hamilton Bassos most popularly acclaimed novel. When first published, it spent forty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into seven languages.