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In 2000, while moving his home from Vermont to NEW YORK, David Payne observed from his rearview mirror as his younger sibling, George A., driving a car behind him in a two-man convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed, flipped over in the road, and perished instantly. Soon thereafter, David's life struck a downward spiral. His career emerged to a standstill, his matrimony disintegrated, and his taking in went from a cocktail-hour indulgence to a full-blown obsession. He found himself haunted not only by George A.'s fatality but also by his brother's manic melancholy, a hereditary health problems that overlaid a dark family history whose origins now gripped David. Barefoot to Avalon is Payne's earnest and unflinching profile of George A. and their boyhood footrace that lasted long to their adulthood, defining their relationship and their lives. As universal as it is personal, this can be an exceptional memoir of brotherhood, of sibling rivalries and sibling love, and of the torments a family group can take silent and carry across generations. Noted by layout with Grove Atlantic, Inc. Web page ix: Excerpt from Roth, Philip, The Counterlife. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Web page 21: Excerpt from "EVERYTHING Comes Together beyond your Restroom in Hogansville" by James Seay taken from Seay, James, Normal water Furniture. © 1974 by Wesleyan College or university Press. Used in combination with permission. Web page 24: Excerpt from "Burnt Norton" by T. S. Eliot taken from Eliot, T. S., Collected Poems 1909 - 1935. London: Faber, 1936, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Posting Company; Copyright © renewed 1964 by T.S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Posting Company. All rights reserved. Web page 43: Excerpt from Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner copyright © 1936 by William Faulkner and renewed 1964 by Estelle Faulkner and Jill Faulkner Summers. Utilized by permission of Random House, a department of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Web page 65: "The Love Track of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot was first published in Poetry mag in 1915. All lines quoted are general public domain. Web page 70: excerpt from One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss, ® and copyright © by Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P., 1960, renewed 1988. Utilized by permission of Random House Children's Literature, a department of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Internet pages 78, 124, 138: Excerpts taken from Jung, C. G., Memory, Dreams and Reflections. NY: Pantheon Literature, 1963.
