Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by:
Tom Franklin (author)
A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin—critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech—Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town....
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A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin—critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech—Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781447271710 (1447271718)
Publish date: 2014-07-31
Publisher: Pan
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Southern,
Suspense
I listened to the audio of this one and it was very well done. This was all about the story, the relationships, the secrets. The characterizations throughout were spot on and I was totally immersed in the tale from start to finish.I enjoyed everything about this one. 4.5 Stars. Excellent. Highly Re...
Definitely sped through the last 60 or so pages! I was not ready for it to end. I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked the way that the story was told from the perspective of the two main characters. This book touched on some issues such as racism and inter racial relationships but it was not too heavy....
The secrets that you keep....will drag you under.In the later part of the 1970s, two boys.....Larry, who always has his nose in a horror novel and athletic Silas, thrown together by chance, form the fragile kind of friendship that outcasts find, a friendship made even more fragile by the weight of i...
Set in rural Mississippi, a land of magnolias, kudzu, and lob-lolly pines, this is a mystery novel with two narrators, "Scary Larry" Ott, who has had no friends for 25 years, and his former friend, Silas Jones. Larry Ott was a lonely boy in 1982, when his first date ended in disaster (the girl di...
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