New York: William Morrow & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0688167403 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in equally unblemished dust-jacket, signed by author Tom Franklin on the title page; Tom Franklin's debut collection, revealing a south Alabama yielding its forests, bogs and rivers to lumber mills, power plants and chemical factories. The mystery of the woods is being replaced by the iron and steel or pipe and tank, drum and pump. The state itself is being poachded. And, as the weathered, handpainted sign in the title novella reads, Jesus is not coming; 8vo; [x], 192, [6] pages; Signed by Author .

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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 deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 23332
Title: Poachers - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Franklin, Tom
Format/Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0688167403
ISBN 13: 9780688167400
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014VM0228S
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Short Fiction;

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