![]() Like his protagonist, Maynard was also in the military in upstate New York, where he was a criminal investigator.Ĭrumand Screaming With the Cannibalshave just been re-released in new paperback editions. ![]() He hitches rides out West, where, after a drinking and fighting binge in San Francisco, he trades jail for a stint as an Army MP - which locks him down at a desolate military compound in upstate New York. In his new novel, The Scummers -the final installment of the Crum trilogy - Jesse still has the urge to wander. ![]() The sequel, Screaming With the Cannibals, which came out five years later, got his protagonist Jesse Stone out of West Virginia, across the Tug River into Kentucky. It was even banned for several years in a state-run store. The people of Crum who know the book tend to love it or hate it. ![]() Lee Maynard's 1988 semi-autobiographical novel Crum is set in the small, poor West Virginia town where he grew up. ![]()
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