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Blackwood

MP3 CD
(1 CD)
Product Number: MPCD5608
Released: 01 Mar, 2021
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781004029082
Narrator(s): Mike McColl
Publisher: W F Howes
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In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods. The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself. When confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts, of regret and violence, transformed by the kudzu vines that have enveloped the hills around it, swallowing homes, cars, rivers, and hiding a terrible secret deeper still. Colburn, a junkyard sculptor who's returned to Red Bluff, knows this pain all too well, though he too is willing to hope for more when he meets and falls in love with Celia, the local bar owner. The Deep South gives these noble, broken, and driven folks the gift of human connection while bestowing upon them the crippling weight of generations. With broken histories and vagabond hearts, the townsfolk wrestle with the evil in the woods and the wickedness that lurks in each and every one of us. "Miraculously beautiful...Smith's prose is both raw and poetic, like opera sung at a honky-tonk. His books are tinged with reverence, an intangible and nearly religious grace that watches over the often brutal events he describes, hinting at the possibility for redemption even in the most debased." LA Review of Books "Blackwood is a solid page turner, written in smooth prose" Associated Press "In Smith's haunting, engrossing latest (after The Fighter), strangers awaken an evil force lurking in a small Southern town...Smith's meditation on the darkness of the human heart offers a moving update to the Southern gothic tradition." Publishers Weekly 'One of the best writers of his generation.' TOM FRANKLIN

Original Publish Date: 01 Mar, 2021

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Narrator(s): Mike McColl
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Released: 01 Mar, 2021
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004029075

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