![]() ![]() It’s the South I experienced as a first-generation college student who earned a BA at night while working days in a hospital morgue, a sandblasting grit company, and a chemical waste plant, the son of a mechanic in a deeply, almost perversely, religious culture. “My stories are set not in the mythological South of moonlight and magnolias but in the blue collar, rural, industrial South. and resonant novel from Tom Franklin-critically acclaimed author of Smonk and. ![]() His outraged friends - mostly poor cotton farmers - form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter By: Tom Franklin Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins Language: English 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings. “This is the land where I grew up, a place at the bottom of the bottom, dirt roads, deep woods, rivers and gravel pits, a place deeply imprinted upon my imagination,” he writes. About the Book In a small Mississippi town, two men are torn apart by. Hell at the Breech: A Novel Kindle Edition. At the Academy, Franklin will work on a hybrid novel, set in rural Alabama. If there is a thread that runs through Franklin’s books – beyond their Southern setting – it is that they all strive to blend what the author loves of high literature – compellingly complex characters and felicitously crafted sentences – with what he loved reading as a young person: the horror novels of Stephen King or the fantasy novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]()
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