Tom Franklin
Hardcover | Pages: 274 pages Rating: 3.83 | 37735 Users | 4753 Reviews
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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) |
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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.Point Containing Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
| 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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Ratings: 3.83 From 37735 Users | 4753 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"The Rutherford girl had been missing for eight days when Larry Ott returned home and found a monster waiting in his house."This book grabbed me from the beginning and never let go. I was mesmerized by the rural Mississippi setting and quickly connected to the main characters. Larry Ott, otherwise known as Scary Larry by an unforgiving and judgmental community, and Silas Jones, the former high school baseball star, have a history. A history that goes back more than twenty years to that difficultSo often when I read a book I cannot wait to talk about it, eager to hear other people's takes and share my own thoughts, but sometimes, as in life, the unexpected occurs. A book has been read all right and it affected me but still I need to let it rest a while, need to think on it, recover from it.I found myself looking back, being brutally honest in my reflection. Have I ever succumbed to group think and if so how often have I hurt others? And even though in truth I have never really fit in
M, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, humpback, humpback, i. That spells Mississippi if you're from the South, so they say. Not sure if I ever heard the humpback version before. The Mississippians in this book are probably not much like most folks you know, with highly dysfunctional families, a mean or absent father in every one, kids that are oppressed and depressed. Then we have snakes in mailboxes, preteens playing with guns, in a town where blacks are
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is the first Tom Franklin book I have read and he is certainly a fine writer. Set in rural Mississippi in the late 1970's, this is a story of a friendship between loner, Larry Ott, and former high school sports star and local constable, Silas Jones or "32". Back in high school, Larry, on his first date, takes a hot local girl to the drive-in and she never returns home. Although not charged with murder, Larry is ostracized by his community for the rest of his life.
I want to be clear on the 3-star rating, folks. I liked this book. I swear. I just dont believe it lived up to the potential I arbitrarily ascribed to it when I saw on the shelf of my local Stop & Shops aisle 7.Guys, I cant review books anymore. I dont know if reviewer burnout is a real thing or if Im just miserable because its only the second week of July and I am going to die from this heat, or if Im rip roaring drunk (which I somewhat am), but I came home from visiting some friends this
Gorgeous... Gorgeous and dripping with emotion and ache...This story OWNED ME from the opening page and LARRY OTT is among the most endearing, heart-wrenching characters I've come across in a long, long time. That I connected so well with both the story and its main character surprised me because, being born and raised in Vegas, my own life experience is so vastly different from both Larry and the town of Chabot, Mississippi, where the story takes place. I give heaping mounds of credit to author
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