Poachers: Stories.
by Tom Franklin
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0688177719
- ISBN 13
- 9780688177713
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Synopsis
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 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. 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 deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human.
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- Seller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 54775
- Title
- Poachers: Stories.
- Author
- Tom Franklin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus (2000), First Printing indicated by a complet
- ISBN 10
- 0688177719
- ISBN 13
- 9780688177713
- Publisher
- Harper & Row: Perennial Library,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; English Literature; Fiction: Collectible Paperbacks; Contemporary Fiction; Modern Fiction First Editions;
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