Knockemstiff
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.12
Format: 207 pages,
Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr…
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1. The Long Home
By: William Gay
4.04
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of… read more
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- southern gothic
- crime
- fiction
"Down fabled roads reverting now to woods Winer felt himself imprisoned by the dark beyond the carlights and by the compulsive timbre of Motormouth's voice, a drone obsessed with spewing out words wit…"-William Gay, The Long Home
"In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming throug…"-William Gay, The Long Home
2. The Weight of This World
By: David Joy
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a s… read more
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- southern gothic
- crime
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3. Knockemstiff
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.12
Format: 207 pages,
Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more
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- horror
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- southern gothic
- crime
4. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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- literature
- southern gothic
- fiction
- horror
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6. Where All Light Tends to Go
By: David Joy
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bonem… read more
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- southern gothic
- crime
- fiction
7. Kentucky Straight: Stories
By: Chris Offutt
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and li… read more
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- literature
- southern gothic
- short stories
- fiction
8. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more
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- southern gothic
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
9. The Motel Life
By: Nate Beaty , Willy Vlautin
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men" (The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Lifeexplores the frustrations and … read more
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- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
10. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: Andre Dubus III , James Alan McPherson , Breece D'J Pancake
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the… read more
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- literature
- short stories
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11. A Feast of Snakes
By: Harry Crews
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird … read more
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12. Joe
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.… read more
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13. The End of Vandalism
By: Tom Drury , None
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
A thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice....A lonely woman paints her toenails in a d… read more
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15. Desperation Road
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more
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16. The Gospel Singer
By: Harry Crews
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more
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17. Father and Son
By: Larry Brown
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This classic story of good and evil takes place in the rural American South of 1968. After being re… read more
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18. Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories
By: Ron Rash
3.87
Format: 334 pages, ebook
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serenaand The Cove, thirty-four of his fines… read more
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19. Donnybrook
By: Frank Bill
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Trade Paperback
The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indi… read more
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20. When These Mountains Burn
By: David Joy
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail hi… read more
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"It had never been that addicts don’t care whether they lived or died, it was that the feeling you were chasing rested right against the brink and sometimes you just fell over."-David Joy, When These Mountains Burn
21. The Line That Held Us
By: David Joy
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accide… read more
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- crime
- fiction
- contemporary
"What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
"You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us."-David Joy, The Line That Held Us
