Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

ISBN-13: 9781447271710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Tom Franklin

Opis

In rural Mississippi, Larry Ott and Silas Jones were unlikely boyhood friends. Ott was the child of lower middle-class white parents, Jones the son of a poor, single, black mother. But when a teenage girl disappeared after a date with Larry, their friendship was irrevocably broken.

Recenzje

Tom Franklin's heart-tuggingly melancholic Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter was a standout slice of beautiful writing. 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. Franklin's powerfully imagined characters are captivating, and the sadness of the story indelibly stains your soul. Metro -Books of the Year

O autorze

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Tom Franklin teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA programme and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.