Tom Franklin
Hardcover | Pages: 274 pages Rating: 3.83 | 37735 Users | 4753 Reviews
Identify Books Conducive To Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
| Original Title: | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| ISBN: | 0060594667 (ISBN13: 9780060594664) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Mississippi(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Hammett Prize Nominee (2010), Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Best Contemporary Mystery (2010), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2010) Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Willie Morris Award (2010), CWA Gold Dagger Award (2011), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2011) |
Commentary Toward Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lebanese. Reviewers have called his fiction “ingenious” (USA Today) and “compulsively readable” (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for characterization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.Particularize Based On Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
| Title | : | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
| Author | : | Tom Franklin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 274 pages |
| Published | : | October 5th 2010 by William Morrow (first published October 5th 2009) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. American. Southern. Thriller. Mystery Thriller |
Rating Based On Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Ratings: 3.83 From 37735 Users | 4753 ReviewsWeigh Up Based On Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
M, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, crooked letter, crooked letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.--How southern children are taught to spell Mississippi Tom FranklinMy wife's family is from Prentiss, Mississippi not far from where the action of this book takes place. When my wife's grandmother died a few years ago we went down for the funeral. This was my first time in Mississippi and I remember a couple of things about the experience. First, this is small town USA and there were two funeralCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter: Thoughts following a second reading"The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house."Read that first sentence. What? It doesn't grab you? Keep reading. It's like that long slow climb up to the peak of that first drop on the roller coaster. Hear the click of the chain pulling you to the top? After you hit the top, you're in for a ride. First came this mean little collection of a novella and
Guh! This book ... (flails helplessly) ... it is a gut puncher, heart-wrencher. Franklin is a poet, his prose sings, his characters walk off the page, and he puts the reader into a time and place that absolutely resonates with a vibrancy and brutal honesty all its own. I was so sad -- so emotionally invested -- that I found the reading painful to bear at times. Franklin's descriptions of human isolation and loneliness are so raw and uncompromising I forced myself to take breathers between
This is a very well done atmospheric novel set in rural Mississippi. The story is told in scenes that alternate between the 1970s and the present day. At the heart of the story are two men, one white, the other black, who for a brief period of time as boys were secretly close friends in a time and place where their friendship, if public, would have only brought them trouble.The white man is Larry Ott, the only child of a lower class family. His father was a mechanic who seemed to have little
The geeks may have seized a nice chunk of pop culture these days, but its too easy to forget that it wasnt that long ago when reading and collecting comic books made you a bit odd. Long before remaking 70s slasher films with as much blood as possible was considered mainstream entertainment, liking Stephen King novels or other horror books and movies might get your folks a closed door session with your teacher. Before Lord of the Rings made a gazillion dollars and won Oscars, you probably would
it is totally okay to float old reviews when you suddenly have a picture of yourself and the author to attach to them. also, when you are bored. but only once a day. anything more than that becomes boring. or desperate.one of the best books i have read, ever.and exactly what i was looking for when i posted my query in my very own readers' advisory group. so, thank you, james, this is a perfect suggestion to the kind of book i was looking for. and i am going to immerse myself in tom franklin's
This was an interesting read, more for its social commentary than its mystery which was actually only there because it explained what had happened to poor Larry Ott. I spent a lot of time at the beginning mentally adjusting to the fact that Larry was white and Silas black. All my instincts from reading books about the deep south wanted them to be the other way round.There are a lot of very unpleasant people in this book and I was never quite sure whether I actually liked Silas at all. All of
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.