David Keenan presents here a novel written by the late (suicide) David W. Keenan, a "writer, teacher and local historian" in St. Andrews, Scotland. There's also commentary by former students salted throughout the novel.

A young Russian woman and her father, a musician with a fondness for Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake are friends with a "famouser musician" with whom she has an affair and becomes pregnant. She and her father take a vacation to Scotland where she has an affair with a "famous golfer" and engages in various sexual behaviors to please him.

There's a supernatural element to the story and it has one of the best lines in recent memory: "If I hadn't had my trigger finger in some girl's butthole earlier I might have scored a direct hit and drilled a hole through my own brain." David Keenan is able to take what could be a conventional story and wrestle it into shape as something else entirely. ( )