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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 Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization 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.

A popular Southern grit-lit author, Franklin took a bizarre turn in his second novel, which is like a Peckinpah Western scribbled over by O’Connor and Hannah, or HBO’s Deadwood on acid. The story is set in an Alabama town and follows a malady-ridden, one-eyed dwarf, and a teenage prostitute as they embark on a violent jumble of glorious depravity. Franklin cranks up the Gothic tricks to eleven here, cleverly skewering the South’s contradictory attitudes on violence, sex, and religion. A lightning-stuck performance guaranteed to offend.

Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the Rough South. From literary legends to emerging voices, the acclaimed writers featured in this collection view their hardscrabble South without romanticism or false nostalgia, not through moonlight and magnolia but moonshine and Marlboros.

This is the dirty South as captured by those rooted in its land yet able to share its stories with candor and courage. Grit Lit guides readers through tales both tall and true, intoxicating stories of loss, violence, failure, feuds, family, and―above all―survival against the odds. Raw and raucous, Grit Lit gathers some of the most provocative writing to come out of the South in the last thirty years. With a preface by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter's introduction to the genre's origins and influences, this bold anthology lays bare the Rough South in all its battered glory and dares readers not to stare in awe.

Die K?nigs Erl?uterung Spezial zu Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter in englischer Sprache ist eine verl?ssliche und bew?hrte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe f?r Sch?ler und weiterf?hrende Informationsquelle f?r Lehrer und andere Interessierte: verst?ndlich, ?bersichtlich und pr?gnant. Info: Abiturthema in Baden-W?rttemberg. In einem Band bieten dir die K?nigs Erl?uterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur oder Matura ben?tigst. Das spart dir l?stiges Recherchieren und kostet weniger Zeit zur Vorbereitung. Alle wichtigen Infos zur Interpretation… – von der ausf?hrlichen Inhaltsangabe ?ber Aufbau, Personenkonstellation, Stil und Sprache bis zu Interpretationsans?tzen – Abituraufgaben mit Musterl?sungen … sowohl kurz als auch ausf?hrlich … – Die Schnell?bersicht fasst alle wesentlichen Infos zu Werk und Autor und Analyse zusammen. – Die Kapitelzusammenfassungen zeigen dir das Wichtigste eines Kapitels im ?berblick – ideal auch zum Wiederholen. … und klar strukturiert … – Ein zweifarbiges Layout hilft dir Wesentliches einfacher und schneller zu erfassen. – Die Randspalte mit Schl?sselbegriffen erm?glichen dir eine bessere Orientierung. – Klar strukturierte Schaubilder verdeutlichen dir wichtige Sachverhalte auf einen Blick.