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Title: Hell at the Breech : A Novel by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0-06-056676-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully written by a true storyteller
Comment: This story, set in the late 1800s in the Southern rural district of Mitcham Beat, begins by introducing us to Macky Burke, a boy on the brink of manhood. In a boyhood moment of adventure, Macky and his brother accidentally commit murder one night and set off a series of events so violent that it changes life in this tiny backwater forever. Tooch Bedsole, brother of the murdered politician/store owner, takes over the store and makes it a center of power for the gang that calls itself "Hell at the Breech," and proclaims the townies the sworn enemy, killers of his brother, Arch. Macky, in reparation for the debt his adoptive grandmother ran up at the general store under the previous owner, is assigned to work for Tooch until the debt is paid off, and is therefore caught up in the increasingly violent activities of the gang. The story reaches a page-turning climax when over 40 men ride out to Mitcham Beat from town to put an end to the lawlessness in a brutal battle scene.
The setting and characters in Hell at the Breech are mean, dismal, and poverty stricken, but Franklin's writing style so strikingly beautiful that the reader is entranced, caught between a world both beautiful & ugly at the same time. In prose-like sentences, Franklin weaves a tale based on actual events and gives the world a wonderfully complex and compelling novel. This book is highly recommended!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Bleak and sorrowful
Comment: This is a sometimes beautiful and deeply disturbing novel about class struggle and violence in the rural south. With the calloused hands of a cotton farmer, the reader briefly holds and studies the ravaged souls of both sides of a divided society, and in the end is left picking at fibers of motivation for horrific acts of violence. Recommended.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hell at the Breech
Comment: OK, I was not impressed. I thought Hell at the Breech was unimaginative and lacking detail. I finished the easy read quickly, but in the end was dissapointed. At one point in the novel, I thought, "Is this taken from the movie Tombstone?". Geesh lets have some originality. It didn't seem that Tom Franklin did any kind of research on the era of events. Very dissapointing...
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Title: Poachers : Stories by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0688177719 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux ISBN: 0375414746 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Rabbit Factory: A Novel by Larry Brown ISBN: 0743245237 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett ISBN: 1400040442 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter ISBN: 0385505914 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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