Poachers by Tom Franklin
A brilliant debut collection of stories set in the American Deep South, by a distinctive and award-winning new voice.‘It’s as if the author kidnapped Raymond Carver’s characters and set them loose in the Deep South’
New York Times Book Review
‘I am amazed by [Franklin’s] power. I’m reminded, by the evocative strength of the prose and the relentlessness of the imagination, of Faulkner. Franklin is a vivid portraitist of these harsh human types, and his authority in depicting the natural world “along this stretch of the Alabama River” is dazzling. I can’t believe he’s not better known, but he will be, and soon.’
PHILIP ROTH
‘This is as strong a collection as any I’ve read in recent years. The stories are collectively and individually brilliant, imbued with a high sense of Southern Gothic and a dark sense of humour.’
Chicago Tribune
Tom Franklin was born and raised in south Alabama, where he worked as a heavy-equipment operator in a grit factory, a construction inspector in a chemical plant and a clerk in a hospital morgue. He now teaches fiction writing at the University of South Alabama.
Poachers is his first collection. He is now at work on a novel, Hell at the Breech, also to be published by Flamingo.
‘Unforgettable . . . Poachers is like a hand that comes out of the green swamp on a moonless night and pulls you from the canoe. What Poachers is really about is discovering a new writer who reminds you that you love to read.’ Tampa Tribune
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780006552260 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006552269 |
| Title | Poachers |
| Author | Tom Franklin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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