Novels about the blue-collar world are rare: Seldom does someone 
near the cellar of society escape to tell the tale. Eric Miles 
Williamson joined the Laborers Union when he graduated from 
high school in 1979 and spent seven years as a gunite construction 
worker, witnessing atrocities that don't make the evening news. 
Two-Up is Williamson's fictional account of a journey through the 
nightmare of the American labor inferno.


"To read Eric Miles Williamson is to encounter the grim humor of 
a blue-collar Nathaniel West or the fierceness of a male Flannery 
O'Connor."—Robert Phillips

"Two-Up is a comi-tragic, western story of gunite workers, the 
Short-Timers of the construction work genre. Which, of course, 
there is none. If there did happen to be more than two other books 
of its kind, I assure you that this surrealistic, hyper-real novel 
would still be the very best."—Dagoberto Gilb

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ERIC MILES WILLIAMSON has been a gunite worker, cement 
mason, carpet layer, professional trumpet player, mover, lumper, 
asphalt worker, demolitionist, backhoe operator, forklift operator, 
college professor, jackhammer operator, architectural engineer, 
gas station attendant, construction foreman, dump truck driver, 
and longshoreman. His first novel, East Bay Grease, was a 
PEN/Hemingway finalist. He lives with his wife, Judy, and their 
children in rural Missouri.