In Better Times: Seven Stories

When Paul Pope finds himself locked into an ongoing chain of events, he chances on an opportunity to extract himself from a complicated destiny he blames on poverty and a misspent youth. A period of enrichment, success, and recognition follows. Dark moments and even murder sidetrack him though. Along the way, Paul's life is impacted by the arrival of several unique personalities including a New Orleans mortician, Walter Beiderweil; an itinerant Texas preacher named Billy Bob Buckmaster; a r...