Voice from the Gutter

About the Book

Living a desperate, lonely life in Nashville, a reclusive writer seeks comfort from massage-parlor prostitutes and other down-and-out types he meets in Music City's "underground world." When he encounters a massage-parlor girl who shares with him her tragic life story, he begins to develop an obsessive attachment to the woman. Just then, he receives word his father in New England is dying and that his return home will reunite him with the wild, mysterious sister who had abandoned the family years before. As he struggles to cope with the trauma of his father's death and his mysterious sister's reemergence into his life, the young man resolves to save the prostitute from her desperate, tragic existence. Or will she save him?

About the Author

David Carew was a candidate for the U.S. Congress in 2000. A novelist, poet, songwriter, and freelance journalist, David for two years wrote the popular “Small Business” column for the Nashville weekly In Review, and also has published feature articles in Bookstore Journal, Business Nashville magazine, and Inside Music. Before moving to Nashville from New England in the early 1980s, he published two short stories and three poems in the New England magazine Bitter Sweet. He is employed as a direct-mail copywriter and publicist at a publishing house in the Nashville area.