That Demon Life
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That Demon Life is a comic tale of lust and laziness, of crime and competence-and incompetence. It's the story of Linda Smallwood, a sometimes depressed, always difficult, Austin criminal defense lawyer, who finds that her life is mired in a series of ridiculous crises. Over the course of a grueling week, Linda encounters a parade of slackers, thugs, and eccentrics-hookers, cab drivers, and political fixers of various stripes-as she loses her job, falls back into a "romance" with her presently married ex-fiancé, and persuades her best friend to seduce and blackmail the judge she holds responsible for her misfortunes.
Lowell Mick White
Lowell Mick White is the author of eight books: novels Normal School and Professed and Burnt House and That Demon Life, the story collections Long Time Ago Good and The Messes We Make of Our Lives, and the creative writing texts Answers Without Questions and Writing Resilience Resistance. A winner of the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he received his PhD from Texas A&M University.
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