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Indlæser... Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel (P.S.) (original 2010; udgave 2011)af Tom Franklin
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Southern Fiction (47) » 8 mere Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A fine piece of Southern writing. The two main characters; one white one African American, as adults are living two totally different lifestyles. But with the use of several flashbacks we learn just how similar and intertwined their lives really are. (  ) kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |  While well written I had hoped for a story with more plot twists, and far better pacing. The characters were interesting but nothing out of the ordinary. A fan of books by Greg Iles who lives and writes about Mississippi based stories this pales in comparison. And to quote Forrest Gump, "and that's all I have to say about that" (  ) Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 | A fascinating character study of race in small-town Mississippi, although not in the way you might expect. As boys, Larry and Silas become friends when Silas and his mother move into a cabin belonging to Larry's father. Their fragile friendship is shattered when Silas, who's black, goes off to college and Larry, who's white, stays in their hometown despite being suspected of murdering a missing teenage girl. Their paths cross again as grownups when Silas, now the town constable, investigates the disappearance of another young woman and suspicion once again falls on Larry. Readers looking for an uncomplicated happy ending will be disappointed; what Franklin offers instead is a cautious hope in the future of interracial friendship in general, and for Larry and Silas in particular. ( ) rosalita | Nov 8, 2022 | I'm torn between 4 and 5 stars - wish I could give it 4 1/2, but I'll go ahead and go for 5. This was a sad but interesting visit to small town Mississippi, also known as Mi crooked letter, crooked letter, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, hump-back hump-back i by young kids. I think I remember that, but it's been a long time ago. I grew up in Alabama, next to Mississippi, but I was in a suburb of the biggest city in Alabama, Birmingham, so I never experienced the small town life, fortunately. Birmingham was small enough for me. The story was very sad, and very unfair. The person shunned by the entire town was a good person who never quite fit in, even in his own home due to a bad father, and later an unfair accusation that was never proven. But there was some redemption at the end to make it better. Or at least bittersweet. A very moving story, and interesting although not very exciting most of the time. Still pretty engrossing to me. (  ) MartyFried | Oct 9, 2022 | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is Tom Franklin’s crime mystery that is so much more than that. I view this as much more a story about human nature, human failings, and human relationships than a who-done-it. At the heart of the novel are two boys, Silas (a black boy) and Larry (a white boy), who want to have a friendship despite family and community taboos, and find themselves in an interesting situation as adults, standing on opposite sides of the small town legal system. Along the way, Franklin makes some astute observations about people and small town sensibilities. “Sometimes he thought of Alice Jones, of Silas, how Larry’s mother had given them coats but not a ride in her car. How what seemed like kindness could be the opposite.” It made me think about intent vs. action. How sometimes we cloak our worst impulses in fancier clothing and think no one recognizes the truth. Or perhaps we do not care if others see the truth as long as we have credible deniability. ”What’s missing out of you, Silas?” Courage, he thought. Larry certainly had a kind of courage. He is portrayed as a weaker person, but what kind of courage does it take to stand up to injustice and not let it rot your soul? When is it too late to atone for a lack of courage that affects the life of another to the extent that we see here? And where along the line might one act of kindness or inclusion have changed the outcome completely? I could not help thinking about all the excluded, laughed-at kids who become outcasts and whose lives are ruined in high school because they have their self-confidence eroded and believe they are what others say they are. The most heroic person in this book is poor Larry Ott, who bears his undeserved fate without hate or recrimination, who continues to want and seek a friend, who bears his lonely life by caring for his chickens as if all living things matter. Kudos to Franklin. This is my second of his novels, but hopefully not the last. ( ) mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
 If you're looking for a smart, thoughtful novel that sinks deep into a Southern hamlet of the American psyche, "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter" is your next book. Tilhører ForlagsserienHæderspriserNotable Lists
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HTML: "The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling....A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind." ??David Wroblewski A powerful and resonant novel from the critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane. 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 No library descriptions found. |
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