Singer

By Ira Sher

Subjects: Traveling sales personnel, Nineteen eighties, Singer Sewing Machine Company, Friendship, fiction, Male friendship, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction

Description: 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?