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And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: "Jesus is not coming " This terrain isn't pretty, isn't for the weak of heart, but in these desperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1999 and Best Mystery Stories of the Century), three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching-a world most of us have never seen. A deserving winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year.In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps, and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. But what sticks at the end is Franklin's shattering, heart-breaking depiction of loneliness.
Franklin's prose is startlingly beautiful, the novel worth reading purely for his evocation of Mississippi. A beautifully crafted thriller that explores the nature of friendship and bigotry.įinancial Times - Books of the Year Guilt suffuses the pages of Mississippi author Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter as well. Metro -Books of the Year This award winning crime novel that invited comparisons with To Kill A Mockingbird tells the story of white and black boyhood friends in rural Mississippi, separated by an apparent crime that changes their lives. Franklin's powerfully imagined characters are captivating, and the sadness of the story indelibly stains your soul. Superb dialogue, scuffed social realism and painterly description bring alive the Mississippi backwater where the tangled history between ostracised Larry Ott and popular police officer Silas Jones is exposed by the disappearance of a girl. Tom Franklin's heart-tuggingly melancholic Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter was a standout slice of beautiful writing.
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