- Male friendship, City and town life, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
"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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Tom Franklin, Tom Franklin, franklin-tom
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- William Morrow, Blackstone Audio, Inc., HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781410435019
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