Escaping Purgatory - Fables in Words and Pictures by Gary A. Braunbeck and Alan M. Clark (Signed and numbered hardcover edition limited to 500 copies) Writing by Braunbeck and Clark/Braunbeck, artwork by Clark. Contains short stories and novellas, approximately 28 pieces of art (6 color plates), 312 pages, color dust jacket. ESCAPING PURGATORY is about personal hells. We all create them. We find ways to convince ourselves that we are comfortable with the really cruel ones, at least for a while. It's understandable. After all change is frightening. But inevitably there comes a time when we are willing to do anything to end the torment. In this book you'll meet some of those extremes and perhaps you'll recognize yourself. 2 lb.