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.
- ISBN10 0061856843
- ISBN13 9780061856846
- Publish Date 13 October 2009 (first published 19 May 1999)
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Imprint HarperCollins eBooks
- Format eBook
- Pages 208
- Language English