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| 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) |
Tom Franklin
Hardcover | Pages: 274 pages Rating: 3.83 | 37735 Users | 4753 Reviews
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| 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 |
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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.Rating Regarding Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Ratings: 3.83 From 37735 Users | 4753 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
What does it say about a person when their mother feels the need for prayer they find a friend? Scary Larry Ott won't blame you if you don't like him.He knows what people say about him... But the first ladies need support and Larry may as well be the one. Another 5 star book from Tom Franklin.Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin is a gripping and extremely well written mystery novel.The story is set in a small town in Mississippi where boyhood pals Larry Ott and Silas 32 attend school. Larry was the child of lower white class white parents and Silas the son of a poor, black single mother. Larry took a girl to a drive in movie and she was never seen o heard from again. He never confessed and was never charged. More than twenty years pass and another girl has disappeared,
My son came home from school last week with his outrageously overpriced yearbook. A lot of people had a lot of nice things to say about him, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. One kid wrote something that struck me as particularly nice:In a few years I see you with a house, wife, and babies. They will be stupendous, and we'll still be friends.What I liked, besides the kid's use of the word "stupendous," was the "still be friends" part.Will they still be friends? Who knows? Like much
Crooked Letter, the crooked lives we live. Those crooked thoughts that alter trajectories, oh if only someonea friend, a parent, a community, a towncould reach out and position a person's marred ways of thinking. Oftentimes, it doesn't happen this way, not if one lives in a crooked town. Imagine a life in ruins, simply because a person has been misunderstood. Imagine having a friend you could never publicly claim, a girlfriend you would always keep hidden, because of a small town's
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 funeral
The descriptive and narrative power in this book is what hooked me. Rural Mississippi, two boys, one black, one white will become entangled in each others lives for years to come. The amazing thing to me is I kept thinking that Silas, who is black grows up respected, very unusual in the south during this time, while Larry, who is white is treated as the towns albatross. Due to a missing girl years back and a missing girl in the present. Very strange mixture of characterizations and yet Franklin
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