A Confederate General from Big Sur

This zany, brilliantly funny novel about life adventures in California presents Lee Mellon, a descendant (possibly, or possibly not) of a Confederate general, seeking truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo and the state of the Union. The Big Sur setting is augmented by frogs, alligators, the punctuation marks in Ecclesiastes, $100,000, and "the last good time this country ever had."