Only So Far

Literature provides for a sort of crossroads in human experience. To discover them is to make acquaintance with a plethora of fools, saints, and heathens begging for change and bargaining for time. Only So Far should chart of these encounters. Equal parts memoir, biography and reflection, this book is an unparalleled experiment in storytelling noteworthy for its employment of the journal convention. Charles Frisling and Richard Gallson meet on the pages of this novel in uncertain, enchanted correspondence. Their friendship is the stuff of remittent adventure and diverging opinion where in fact the pen is mightier than the sword. This is a story of how young men find God. That story, intriguingly, is very nearly lost, unless the story finds the men...