The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso (1994, Hardcover, Reprint)

Pompey's Head is a fictional small city in the South, Mirrored from Brunswick, Georgia. Anson Page is a New York lawyer, who must return to his hometown on a business trip. This is about the snobbery and narrow mindness of the Southern Elite.

Anson Page is investigating an embezzlement charge. The victim is an aging novelist, whose royalties are mysteriously disappearing. The novelists wife suspects that her husband is being cheated, BUT it is the novelist himself who is siphoning off his earnings, in order to provide for his African-American Mother, and to buy her silence regarding his mixed parentage. The wife is apprised of the situation and agrees to keep quiet.





This is a slice of Southern Americana touching on Racism, Class Prejudice and Adultery.

Hamilton Basso is a superb novelist, also his book titled, "The Light Brigade" is a great book.

This story has special meaning to me, as it was written about my hometown. then subsequently a movie was made in 1955, and filmed in my hometown of Brunswick, Georgia. My Dad had several parts in the movie.