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Michael Farris Smith
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BLACKWOOD release date and info...
Very happy to share the cover art and release date of March 3 for the new one, BLACKWOOD. Check it out over at https://michaelfarrissmith.com/blackw....
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Rivers
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2013
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13 editions
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Desperation Road
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2017
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17 editions
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The Fighter
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2018
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14 editions
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In the beginning (Rivers #0.5)
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2014
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3 editions
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The Hands of Strangers
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2011
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5 editions
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Le Pays des oubliés
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Desperation Road (eBook)
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Blackwood
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Mississippi Noir
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2016
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8 editions
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Story Behind the Book : Volume 4 - Essays on Writing & Editing Fiction
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2015
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2 editions
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Doug wrote: "i finally started The Fighter and I’m loving it! I’m a quarter of the way through and your prose is fantastic. I wish I could write like
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Michael Smith
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The Hands of Strangers:
Sorry I'm late to respond to this, but here is a link to the new paperback edition: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Stranger...
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"Michael Farris Smith has written an effortlessly erudite, complex and lucid novel of consequence set in the ravaged town of McComb, Mississippi. It tells of the travails of lives brimful of pain unravelling under the relentless and searing souther..."
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“Tomorrow you and them will set out for the end of your lives and I’ll be here. The one who gave and would keep on giving if you’d let me. But you don’t want to let me. You and them are going to walk through the valley but you’ll have no shepherd. You’ll have no answers. And you’ll kill the babies. And you’ll die. You ain’t no healer, no more than I am, but I can give more than you.”
― Rivers
― Rivers
“And it was then that Cohen began to feel the weight of the others in this house on this dot on the map below the Line. He had always been aware that he wasn't the only one who had lost, but the losses for others seemed different to him, more true and exact, now that the losses of others had eyes and faces and arms and legs.”
― Rivers
― Rivers
“It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land.”
― Rivers
― Rivers
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“Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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