This oddity consists of a photograph on the recto with a caption of a sort facing which suggests snippets from a fiction of some sort, written by a prominent novelist. The photographs concern themselves with the banal in rural America, perhaps exclusively the South, as the few localities namechecked are all southern. As is often the case with photography which chronicles the banal, some of these are very droll, others moving, but quite a few are simply banal. I never got too interested in the narrative, such as it was, in the captions. The book is a worthwhile browse, but is terribly overpriced if new. ( )