NAUGAHIDE DAYS

About the Book

"So,

gentle reader, open up this book, pick out a tale at random, doesn't matter

which, and put your feet up on the old swaybacked sofa in this ancient

tumbledown rose cottage at the end of the sandy lane. Listen. Outside the

window, a summer nor'easter is brewing. The wind finds a shrill banshee

voice. It rattles the shingles and mists hard, chill raindrops off the grey

slop dancing out in the harbor...Listen. Thomas Woodbriar's calm baritone

introduces you to his world, this tiny crescent of sanddune and beach plum

and cobblestone, such a sweetly mad tempest in a cracked, old teapot, this

Naugahide that he knows so intimately..." (From the introduction by Phil

Laughing Crow Austin)

About the Author

Phil Austin, born in Hartford, CT in 1953 has lived on Nantucket, Island for the past twenty years with his wife Ursula, son Robin, and an alarming number of tame animals. He has been a blues singer, a Native American rights activist, a theatre designer, and housewright. His magical realism tales of angels, aliens, and the everyday saints among us all speak of the invariable goodness of humankind. His first novel, On Bethel Ridge, a Christmas fable published in 1998, was hailed as 'a sharply etched tale reaching across cultures with a universal spirituality.'