Go to Page Content  "An engaging picaresque novel of a young man
on the run. A warm, well-told story of a likable character with
a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
—Publisher's Weekly  Willy Middlebrook is a nice boy from the
suburbs, a Vietnam vet, a college drop-out majoring in Human
Kindness. Framed for the murder of a cop, Willy goes on the lam
from the law. With hopeful heart and broken balls he lives among
the people of the humble cafes and dusty bars, underground:
"They have rough brown skin and wrinkled eyes. They are round
and they are usually dirty. They are hard because they have to
be, but if you warm them they get soft and you can make them
sweet." Famous Potatoes is a road novel with a touch of noir, a
tall tale that has been called "exuberant, funny, and humane."
"Like the smudged chrome of a truck-stop diner, Famous Potatoes
is an element of a new American realism, and Cottonwood has made
it an engaging trip." —Chicago Tribune  The year is 1973. Back
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