Scar Lover
Harry Crews
Simon and Schuster
In a dozen novels and his non-fiction books and articles, Harry Crews has shown himself to be a true American original. With Scar Lovers he returns to the familiar, unmistakable "Crews territory"--a Southern landscape peopled by quirky, odd, and oddly appealing individuals--to explore the realities of redemption and the power of love without boundries of fear.<br>Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and 
redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, 
Harry Crews.<br>
Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic 
accident that has destroyed his family, Pete Butcher avoids all personal
 contact. Then Sarah Leemer, the oddly beautiful girl next door, walks 
into his life...