Poachers: Stories.

New York, NY Harper & Row: Perennial Library, 2000. Paperback First Edition Thus (2000), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. REMAINDER, showing a mark at the bottom edge of the text block. Else, Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only a touch of wear to the extremities; else flawlesss; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. Would make an attractive reading copy. NOT a Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches). 192 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.3 ounces. First Edition Thus (2000), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Trade Paperback. In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps, and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella (selected for the anthologies New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1999 and Best Mystery Stories of the Century), three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: "Jesus is not coming;" This terrain isn't pretty, isn't for the weak of heart, but in these desperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human.