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Fiction. Illustrated by Tom Motley. Culminating his life-long engagement with the work and spectre of Samuel Beckett, Raymond Federman here pairs with fellow fictionist George Chambers (Null Set & Other Stories) to create the stories and dialogues of two vagabonds musing in the long shadows of Waiting for Godot. Add brilliant drawings by cartoonist Tom Motley and you have a one-of-a-kind book, at once profound and immersed in trivia, playful and yet as serious as death. "Stan & Oliver, Frog & Toad, Bud & Lou, The Sunshine Boys, Bill & Ted, Bouvard & Pecuchet--but most of all Vladimir and Estragon--stand behind this book like defrocked priests at an inquest. Old men rule!, at least in the glimmer of a watery eye and inconstant heart"--Charles Bernstein.

RAYMOND FEDERMAN's books include Double or Nothing (1971), Take it or Leave it (1976), The Voice in the Closet (1979/2002), and the American Book Award winning Smiles on Washington Square (1985). He is an Emeritus Professor at University at Buffalo. GEORGE CHAMBERS's works of fiction include the collection, NULL SET (1977). He teaches at Bradley University. T. MOTLEY is the creator of Hector, Aline the Alien, and many more characters in a cartooning career of more than two decades.