Dark, disturbing and strangely powerful, Franklin's stories are set
in Southern Alabama, where he grew up, in a land 'lush and green
and full of death'. An unusually lengthy preface explains the
volume's genesis - driven by a desire to record the flavour of a
particular time and place, it's an area Franklin fears time will
soon inevitably alter, leaving no traces behind. In sinewy, sensual
prose he captures the distinctive flavour of this region superbly,
each story suffused with the sort of detail that a only a native
can render. Although Franklin's protagonists are frequently
dispossessed or desperate, inhabiting a twilight world of faint
hopes and fierce emotions, he endows each one with a credibility
that makes this a compulsive read. These are contemporary folk for
whom the American dream is a distant memory; struggling to survive
in a rough and rugged milieu: that of the forests, swamps and
trailer-parks of Alabama. The landscape he paints is undeniably
bleak - it's a land of primeval passions, raw feelings and casual
violence - but it's a world that is likely to linger in your mind,
so vividly does it spring alive in these pages. For some, it may
well prove too brutal a read, but at its best, as in the volume's
striking title story, Franklin achieves a lean lyricism that grips
the imagination unwaveringly. (Kirkus UK)
A brilliant debut collection of stories set in the American Deep
South, by a distinctive and award-winning new voice. Poachers reads
as if Raymond Carver were still alive and living in the profoundly
Deep South. Or imagine a world created by Cormac McCarthy and plunk
it down in the woods of southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw
as moonshine. In ten spare, muscular stories, Tom Franklin evokes a
world of forests and swamps, hunting and fishing, and fills it with
poachers, drunks and poor white trash. He creates haunting tales
about people who react, often violently, against a dying world
whose gravity they can't escape, people like the three half-wild
brothers in the award-winning title story, who treat the swamp as
their kingdom and hunt down anything that crosses their path -
until they themselves become the prey.
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