- Mystery, Race relations, Detective and mystery stories, Depressions
Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Mysterious Press, Wheeler Pub.
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780792724599
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