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ATDrake · 10-05-2014, 11:14 AM

Free from the author @ Amazon (not KDP Select, but being price-matched to some store which isn't free in Canada):

Goobersville Breakdown by Robert H. Lieberman (IMDB), another one of those quirky literary fiction novels chock-full of eccentric characters and their situations, this one originally out from Gamma Books in 1979.

Best-selling novelist and award-winning film director Robert H. Lieberman takes readers on a hilarious, non-stop ride as they follow the mad travails of Neil Nudelman, down-and-out in Goobersville, New York.

Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide.

Now in it’s fourth edition, the laughs are as fast and funny as ever, the pathos heart-breaking.

Free again via small press start-up Stay Thirsty Media via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The American Storybag: A Collection of Tales by award-winning folklorist and storyteller Gerald Hausman (Wikipedia), who's had books in print as far back as 1969 with such publishers as our old friend Stackpole (who used to give us rather nice weekly non-fiction freebies like clockwork) and many others.

The cover on this says that it's a winner of the American Folklore Society Award. And also, it's a collection which includes a fair number of tales based on traditional Native American stories, which apparently Hausman is well-known for collecting and bringing to the public.

The stories in THE AMERICAN STORYBAG are a fleeting yet incisive look at American life, primarily on the road, but sometimes on or in the water, and have been collected by Gerald Hausman since 1965.

Some of the tales are very brief and may be called "sudden stories". Many of them deal with human survival - an autistic boy lost in a trackless swamp; a young woman who falls in love with a supernatural creature; a young man who finds himself by finding his horse. Some of the tales are mere messages left on a cell phone. Others, like the story "Bimini Blue" tell about a Navajo healing ceremony given to a famous author who committed suicide.

There are stories of ghosts, demons, fearsome predators, and wise old men who take the innocent in hand and lead them on the road to wisdom. These are tales of innocence and anguish, fantasy and fable, humor and heart. In them we hear the voices of a lost America - an America of folk heroes fading fast from view and crying out to be heard.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author @ Amazon (not KDP Select, but being price-matched to some store which isn't free in Canada): Goobersville Breakdown by Robert H. Lieberman (IMDB), another one of those quirky literary fiction novels chock-full of eccentric characters and their situations, this one originally out from Gamma Books in 1979. Best-selling novelist and award-winning film director Robert H. Lieberman takes readers on a hilarious, non-stop ride as they follow the mad travails of Neil Nudelman, down-and-out in Goobersville, New York. Desperate to support his wife and two children, Nudelman tries his hand at countless jobs, palming himself off as a carpenter, ghost writer for a wealthy businessman, and even attempts selling himself to the Chinese. At war with his bizarre neighbors the Szorsky’s, Nudelman contemplates justifiable homicide. Now in it’s fourth edition, the laughs are as fast and funny as ever, the pathos heart-breaking. Free again via small press start-up Stay Thirsty Media via KDP Select @ Amazon: The American Storybag: A Collection of Tales by award-winning folklorist and storyteller Gerald Hausman (Wikipedia), who's had books in print as far back as 1969 with such publishers as our old friend Stackpole (who used to give us rather nice weekly non-fiction freebies like clockwork) and many others. The cover on this says that it's a winner of the American Folklore Society Award. And also, it's a collection which includes a fair number of tales based on traditional Native American stories, which apparently Hausman is well-known for collecting and bringing to the public. The stories in THE AMERICAN STORYBAG are a fleeting yet incisive look at American life, primarily on the road, but sometimes on or in the water, and have been collected by Gerald Hausman since 1965. Some of the tales are very brief and may be called "sudden stories". Many of them deal with human survival - an autistic boy lost in a trackless swamp; a young woman who falls in love with a supernatural creature; a young man who finds himself by finding his horse. Some of the tales are mere messages left on a cell phone. Others, like the story "Bimini Blue" tell about a Navajo healing ceremony given to a famous author who committed suicide. There are stories of ghosts, demons, fearsome predators, and wise old men who take the innocent in hand and lead them on the road to wisdom. These are tales of innocence and anguish, fantasy and fable, humor and heart. In them we hear the voices of a lost America - an America of folk heroes fading fast from view and crying out to be heard.