Novels about the blue-collar world are rare: Seldom does someone near the cellar of society escape to tell the tale. Eric Miles Williamson joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news. Two-Up is Williamson's fictional account of a journey through the nightmare of the American labor inferno.
About the Author
ERIC MILES WILLIAMSON has been a gunite worker, cement mason, carpet layer, professional trumpet player, mover, lumper, asphalt worker, demolitionist, backhoe operator, forklift operator, college professor, jackhammer operator, architectural engineer, gas station attendant, construction foreman, dump truck driver, and longshoreman. His first novel, East Bay Grease, was a PEN/Hemingway finalist. He lives with his wife, Judy, and their children in rural Missouri.