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false <![CDATA[Smonk: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174353483m/385530.jpg 385530 4 It's 1911 and the secluded southwestern Alabama town of Old Texas has been besieged by a scabrous and malevolent character called E. O. Smonk. Syphilitic, consumptive, gouty and goitered, Smonk is also an expert with explosives and knives. He abhors horses, goats and the Irish. Every Saturday night for a year he's been riding his mule into Old Texas, destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men&#8212all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over and under rifle. At last the desperate citizens of the town, themselves harboring a terrible secret, put Smonk on trial, with disastrous and shocking results. Thus begins the highly anticipated new novel from Tom Franklin, acclaimed author of Hell at the Breech and Poachers. Smonk is also the story of Evavangeline, a fifteen-year-old prostitute quick to pull a trigger or cork. A case of mistaken identity plunges her into the wild sugarcane country between the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, land suffering from the worst drought in a hundred years and plagued by rabies. Pursued by a posse of unlikely vigilantes, Evavangeline boats upriver and then wends through the dust and ruined crops, forced along the way to confront her own clouded past. She eventually stumbles upon Old Texas, where she is fated to E. O. Smonk and the townspeople in a way she could never imagine. In turns hilarious, violent, bawdy and terrifying, Smonk creates its own category: It's a southern, not a western, peopled with corrupt judges and assassins, a cuckolded blacksmith, Christian deputies, widows, War veterans, whores, witches, madmen and zombies. By the time the smoke has cleared, the mystery of Smonk will be revealed, the survivors changed forever. 375243 1 9 2006 Smonk: A Novel total:106|5:27|4:42|3:24|2:6|1:7| 106 394 166 28 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 05:36:36 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 05:16:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 12:50:25 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 07:28:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 10:32:36 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 20:16:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 07:57:54 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:59:47 -0700 2009
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