by Mary Lee Settle
dual edition with a new introduction by the author

6 x 9, 388 pages
paper, ISBN 1-57003-098-7, $14.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a wheelchair-bound man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew that had.

The Kiss of Kin, Settle's second and highly acclaimed novel, centers on the funeral, and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Soutern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan—all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems—grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir.

Pulbished together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales as well as a sample of Settle's early writing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kinand a memoir, All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Addie
Charley Bland
Prisons
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
The Killing Ground
All the Brave Promises
Blood Tie
Celebration
The Clam Shell