1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge.
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Classical in form, bleak, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Stephen Graham Jones
- First published
- 2024
- Publisher
- Titan Books Limited, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781835410288
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Stephen Graham work has been included in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year vol.2, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and has been a finalist for The Shirley Jackson Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Black Quill. Jones grew up in West Texas, Ph.D'd. at Florida State University, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. *From publisher*
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