Being Dead Is No Excuse authors Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays confide: We wish that we had written this book! It takes the Crocheted Bedpan Award. Every Southerner should read Johns book. Laughter is good for what ails you and John will make you laugh. Tales of a Southern Palazzo reads like fiction although it is a loving memoir of a complex, twisted, and highly fragrant story about Moultrie, Georgia that is basically true! Using a singularly distinctive mansion that cements all of the Southern waywardness as a backdrop, Tales recounts the hilarious and oftentimes unbelieveable events that have occurred during the tenure of three Southern bachelors within and without its Palladian walls. At the axis of these stories is the authors aunt, Alyce McCall who struggles to keep her neighborhood homogenized and free of anything but the norm prescribed by this small town well below the Mason-Dixon Line. The author includes a tell it all treatise on his family and friends and the stories they have lived. From the celebrated Cloister Hotel on Sea Island, Georgia to the dove fields of Colquitt County, Tales of a Southern Palazzo celebrates the uniqueness of tragedy and humor in the deep South, defying the reader to discern which is which! Cover illustration by the author.

Tales of a Southern Palazzo : A Memoir, Used [Paperback]