Faulkner meets Hemingway, Jim Harrison, and Cormac McCarthy, along with Rick Bass and Larry Brown, in these stunning tales set in southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine whiskey. Tom Franklin's eloquent, deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and fishing, shotgun shacks and trailer parks, poachers and lawmen, factory workers, poor white trash, and bucket-o'-blood boozers. His stories are laced with naked violence, lush detail, and the hot blood, sweat, and tears of human relationships.