Bibliograph

Poachers, stories, Tom Franklin

Type

Label

Poachers, stories, Tom Franklin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Poachers

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tom Franklin

Sub title

stories

Summary

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 desperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human

Target audience

adult

Classification