Love by Drowning

"Magnificent in its conception and precisely detailed in its execution, LOVE BY DROWNING is a disquietingly obsessive psychological mystery of two brothers, Val and Davis,whose fates, set in motion early by their father, are tragically altered by their involvement with Lee Anne, a mysterious and charismatic woman. Poverman is a writer of such range and power, and of such oneiric strangeness and metamorphosis that at times the writing carries the force of myth. I disappeared into the world of the novel right from the beginning, and I haven't had that experience in a long while." Michael Collier, Director, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference