'He loved America, but would America love him back?' This is the dilemma facing Henderson Dores - shy, English, self conscious and nearly forty- as he stands in the middle of Park Avenue, New York City worrying.
He has come to America to work- true- but he really hopes that it is America that will work for him.
And sure enough, it does- in no uncertain way. From New York his job takes him to the deep south, to the isolated, tiny hick town of Luxora Beach, Georgia (or is it Alabama?). There he encounters the bizarre millionaire Loomis Gage and his extraordinary, unreal and threatening family
This started out OK, Dores goes to the south to purchase some art work, at the beginning the absurdities were amusing but as the book wore on it ran out of steam and quickly got silly.
It the end it just got annoying for me. Boyd now has now written lots of good stuff to read before you need to get into this one.
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