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Original Title:	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
ISBN:	0060594667 (ISBN13: 9780060594664)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Mississippi(United States)
Literary Awards:	Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Hammett Prize Nominee (2010), Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) for Best Contemporary Mystery (2010), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2010) Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2011), Willie Morris Award (2010), CWA Gold Dagger Award (2011), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2011)

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Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lebanese. Reviewers have called his fiction “ingenious” (USA Today) and “compulsively readable” (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for characterization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. 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.

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Title	:	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Author	:	Tom Franklin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First edition
Pages	:	Pages: 274 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2010 by William Morrow (first published October 5th 2009)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. American. Southern. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

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Oh, small-town, rural America, why must you scare me so? Why must this book, written about you, kill something inside me with every page? Why does it, and you by proxy, need to crush me with loneliness and sadness and desperation? This is a profoundly sad book about sadness in life, which is sad. And I'm not even being a brat here when I say that. There's nothing about this story that's even remotely optimistic, even the quasi-hopeful ending is very sad, if you think about it.And why wouldn't

What does it say about a person when their mother feels the need for prayer they find a friend? Scary Larry Ott won't blame you if you don't like him.He knows what people say about him... But the first ladies need support and Larry may as well be the one. Another 5 star book from Tom Franklin.

The geeks may have seized a nice chunk of pop culture these days, but its too easy to forget that it wasnt that long ago when reading and collecting comic books made you a bit odd. Long before remaking 70s slasher films with as much blood as possible was considered mainstream entertainment, liking Stephen King novels or other horror books and movies might get your folks a closed door session with your teacher. Before Lord of the Rings made a gazillion dollars and won Oscars, you probably would

it is totally okay to float old reviews when you suddenly have a picture of yourself and the author to attach to them. also, when you are bored. but only once a day. anything more than that becomes boring. or desperate.one of the best books i have read, ever.and exactly what i was looking for when i posted my query in my very own readers' advisory group. so, thank you, james, this is a perfect suggestion to the kind of book i was looking for. and i am going to immerse myself in tom franklin's

I want to be clear on the 3-star rating, folks. I liked this book. I swear. I just dont believe it lived up to the potential I arbitrarily ascribed to it when I saw on the shelf of my local Stop & Shops aisle 7.Guys, I cant review books anymore. I dont know if reviewer burnout is a real thing or if Im just miserable because its only the second week of July and I am going to die from this heat, or if Im rip roaring drunk (which I somewhat am), but I came home from visiting some friends this

Two boyhood friends, now 'non-friends' in adulthood, are forced to face their individual bags of bones in their closets, when a serious crime strikes their small town in Mississippi. Thrown together, the skeletons screamed their stories to a world who refused to acknowledge their truth. Instead, the people around them preferred to believe their own versions and acted upon it all these years.For Silas Jones, or '32', as he was known as a high school baseball hero, it could have been different if

My son came home from school last week with his outrageously overpriced yearbook. A lot of people had a lot of nice things to say about him, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. One kid wrote something that struck me as particularly nice:In a few years I see you with a house, wife, and babies. They will be stupendous, and we'll still be friends.What I liked, besides the kid's use of the word "stupendous," was the "still be friends" part.Will they still be friends? Who knows? Like much