Fields of Asphodel is a 2007 novel by the American writer Tito Perdue. It picks up the story of Leland "Lee" Pefley where Perdue's first novel, Lee, left off.
Both Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly compare the novel to those of Samuel Beckett; but the latter finds that it lacks Beckett's "lyricism." Kirkus Reviews, 1 July 2007.
In the Quarterly Review, Derek Turner judges it "without a doubt the strangest" of Perdue's books yet published.Derek Turner, "Meet Lee Pefley – Sociopath (and Sage)," Quarterly Review (Spring 2008). Don Noble notes its "highly literate, idiosyncratic diction," while Turner finds it "difficult to know how to do justice to a book that combines ... courtly archaisms with crude street slang ... philosophical points ... with haemorrhoid-related humour."Don Noble, "Fields of Asphodel," apr.org (22 December 2008).Don Noble, "Pefley Visits the Underworld," Tuscaloosa News (28 December 2008).
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