The Welsher Author:Peter Thomas Set in Wales and New Brunswick, this darkly comic novel chronicles the mishaps, mayhem, compulsive slander, and dire straits experienced by one Anthony Watkins, who cannot call his life his own. Watkins finds himself re-written by the fictions of a hanged man and a team of Welsh conspirators led by Morgan U. Price, ageless village elder, assiste... more »d by Watkins' parents, his own worthy spouse, his cousin's beautiful and fertile wife, Dr. Daniel Morgan, that disgrace to medicine, and the massed choristers of Glantawe, where all truths are possible and most are at least attempted. Yet Watkins, too, is part of what he suffers: fated to delude, invent, re-live his delirium and folly, accept as gospel the story of the hour. What he must endure is less an identity crisis than a carnival of mortal dreams.« less