Pearl and Arthur

Set in the halcyon years of the imaginary city of Ayrington, North Carolina and spanning nearly half a century, Pearl and Arthur, tells the bitter-sweet saga of two very odd yet loveable small-town misfits – accused by nearly everyone in that humble little mill town of being just about anything other than who they really were. Loved by only the few who truly knew them, their story will bring a warmth to your heart, a little laughter along the way and may even leave you misty-eyed. Once in a while in this world full of trouble, and you find you might could use just a little something different to lighten up another dreary old day, a charming little book like this one comes your way…

Don Blanton, Jr., is a native of North Carolina and an award winning* freelance writer currently residing in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is the author of the godawfullong but very entertaining trilogy Not Famous: An Autobiography in the Third Person of a Not So Ordinary Man. Married full-time and teaching English when he has to, he seems to be able to find enough to do down there to keep himself reasonably busy and safely out of the nut house. Mostly he writes, teaches English, walks this Labrador mutt, plays his drums down in the basement, listens to music and tries his level best to thoroughly dig the moment. Not counting his award winning* short story, Pearl and Arthur is his first major work of pure unadulterated fiction. *Davidson County Writers Guild 1992 First Place Winner for both short story and poetry. Really. No kidding.