The Independent - London, August 5th, 1995
The travelling salesman is one of the stock figures in American life and art. In western after western we find him hanging around outside the saloon, a lippy charlatan with a bowler hat, peddling big-city cure- alls to guileless homesteaders. Unlike the big-hearted heroes of these adventures, this guy's a cowardly little squit who's not worth shooting: usually he winds up flat on his back in the only puddle this side of Sweetwater.
He ought to prove a rich source of good material, full of comical fibs and the snatched romance of life on the road; and Timothy Spears has included some nice quot...
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