. . "Traveling sales personnel Fiction." . . . . . . . "In the early 1980s, Milton Menger, a wealthy art dealer living in New Jersey, is called by an estranged friend, Charles Trembleman. Charley is a traveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Company and his hands have just been badly burned in a motel fire near Memphis. He needs a driver so he can continue traveling and selling. Together they embark on a journey across the South, visiting showrooms and staying in locally owned motels. Is it a coincidence that these motels keep going up in flames?" . . . . . . "Fiction" . . . . . . "Road fiction" . "Black humor (Literature)" . . . . "Singer" . "Southern States" . . "Nineteen eighties Fiction." . . "Male friendship Fiction." . .