Tom Franklin
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
For a few months in the late 1970s, Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother, stepped outside their circumstances to become pals. Then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date, and she was never heard from again. Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him. The incident broke their friendship, and then Silas left town. Twenty years later Larry, a solitary mechanic, and Silas,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- -mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E. O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty, and goitered-an expert with explosives and knives-Smonk hates horses, goats, and the Irish, and it's high time he was stopped. But...
6) Smonk
Author
Language
Español
Description
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,...
7) Furtivos
Author
Language
Español
Description
«Mi Sur es la zona baja de Alabama, frondosa, verde y llena de muerte, los condados boscosos que se extienden entre los ríos Alabama y Tombigbee», donde las emociones corren con la misma crudeza que el alcohol de destilación ilegal. Diez relatos sobrios y potentes en los que el autor evoca un paisaje de bosques y pantanos, cazadores y pescadores, furtivos y borrachos, parques de caravanas y basura blanca pobre. Personajes perdidos que reaccionan...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Finales de los años setenta. Chabot, una pequeña localidad rural del sur de Mississippi. Larry es un adolescente solitario y triste que se pasa todo el día encerrado en su cuarto leyendo libros de Stephen King. Su padre, dueño del taller en la carretera 11, dice que es un negado para la mecánica. Una mañana, camino del colegio, recogen en la carretera a una mujer negra y a su hijo, Silas, que, desde hace unos días, viven como refugiados en...
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen...