Tom Franklin

"... an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she...

In 1927, as the Mississippi River threatens to burst its banks and engulf all in its path, two federal revenue agents investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents on the trail of a local bootlegger.

Smonk odia a las cabras y a los irlandeses. Tiene un Winchester y gasta un bastón de empuñadura de marfil con una espada oculta. Lleva cuatro o cinco revólveres repartidos por la ropa, munición de sobra, cartuchos de dinamita y un cuchillo en una bota. Luce varias cicatrices de bala en el hombro derecho, una en cada antebrazo y otra en el pie izquierdo, perdigonazos por toda la espalda y una cuchillada en la tripa. Tiene gota, bocio, gonorrea,...

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. 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. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories from...