The Bottoms (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BQVROM
Publish date: December 7th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Texas, 1930er-Jahre. Es ist die Zeit der großen Dürre und der Depression. Außerdem ist es die Zeit als der elfjährige Harry und seine kleine Schwester Tom die Leiche einer schwarzen Frau am Fluss finden. Damit öffnet sich für den Jungen die Welt der Erwachsenen, die aus drückenden Sommern, düsterem ...
From Casual Debris.Eleven year-old Harry Crane and his little sister Thomasina "Tom" stumble upon the mutilated corpse of a black woman along the Sabine River in East Texas, 1933. The boy's farmer father, Jacob Crane, acts as the community's lawman, and through the boy's perspective we are brought i...
Pretty solidly written mystery set in Depression-era East Texas river bottom country with all the troubling racial and social baggage that involves. Surprisingly I figured out whodunit (I'm usually clueless) and the denouement, especially where the character Tom was involved felt rushed, so 3 1/2 st...
Lansdale plops you right in the middle of the East Texas bayou and runs you along with the protagonist as he tells his enthralling story.
This is Lansdale at his best. The Bottoms is a realistic look at rural life in the East Texas during the Great Depression. Narrated by a man at the end of his years about an incident that happened he was 11 years old, the story centers around a string of brutal murders of women. At first it is a bla...
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