Smonk A Novel |
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Author:
| Franklin, Tom |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-184262-7 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | William Morrow & Company |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $17.99 |
Book Description:
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"Fast-paced and unrelentingly violent . . . readers looking for a strange and savage tale can't go wrong" with this western from an Edgar Award-winning author (Publishers Weekly).From the
New York Times-bestselling author of
Hell at the Breech and
Crooked Letter,
Crooked Letter, a historical thriller in turns hilarious, bawdy and terrifying.It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday...
More Description "Fast-paced and unrelentingly violent . . . readers looking for a strange and savage tale can't go wrong" with this western from an Edgar Award-winning author (Publishers Weekly).From the New York Times-bestselling author of Hell at the Breech and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, a historical thriller in turns hilarious, bawdy and terrifying.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 capturing old Smonk won't be easy--and putting him on trial could have shocking and disastrous consequences, considering the terrible secret the citizens of Old Texas are hiding.Praise for Tom Franklin: "I'm reminded, by the evocative strength of the prose and the relentlessness of the imagination, of William Faulkner." --Philip Roth"It's as if the author kidnapped Raymond Carver's characters and set them loose in the Deep South." --The New York Times Book Review