| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0002261596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0002261593 |
| No of pages | 350 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Flamingo |
| Published Date | 16 Feb 2004 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0002261596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0002261593 |
| No of pages | 350 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Flamingo |
| Published Date | 16 Feb 2004 |
Tom Franklin was born and raised in south Alabama. He is the author of the acclaimed collection of stories entitled Poachers, which was named as a Best First Book of Fiction by Esquire in 1999 and was also the winner of a 1999 Edgar Award for the title story.
Recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he has held the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residency at Ole Miss and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship at Sewanee. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their young daughter, Claire.
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A gang of hooded outlaws, a year-long reign of terror, a legendary massacre – the extraordinary events of the Mitcham Beat War are brought to life in this superb new novel from the Edgar Award-winning author of ‘Poachers’
In 1897, in a remote area of Alabama called Mitcham Beat, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered. His outraged supporters form the Hell at the Breech gang – and wage a bloody campaign of retribution that sweeps up the guilty and the innocent alike.
Caught in this maelstrom of vengeance are the county's ageing sheriff, the widowed midwife who delivered nearly every member of the gang, a ruthless detective waging a private war, and a young store clerk with a terrible secret.
Soaked in the atmosphere of the Deep South, Tom Franklin weaves together historical fact, spare, poised prose and brutal, vivid action to tell a powerful story of ordinary people testing their capacity for good and evil in a harsh and lawless land – in so doing writing a novel worthy of comparison to the works of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and James Dickey.