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World Made Straight, The

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World Made Straight, The

SKU: 9781922182999 Category: Product ID: 90949

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Title: World Made Straight, The
Author: RASH RON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/06/2015
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his North Carolina hometown, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and Travis’s confrontation with the subtle evils within his rural world has begun.

Before long, Travis has moved out of his parents’ home to live with Leonard Shuler, a one-time schoolteacher who lost his job and custody of his daughter years ago, when he was framed by a vindictive student. Now Leonard lives with his dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a run-down trailer outside town, deals a few drugs, and studies journals from the Civil War. Travis becomes his student, of sorts, and the fate of these two outsiders becomes increasingly entwined as the community’s terrible past and corrupt present bear down on each of them from every direction, leading to a violent reckoning – not only with Toomey, but with the legacy of the Civil War massacre that, even after a century, continues to divide an Appalachian community.

Vivid, harrowing yet ultimately hopeful, The World Made Straight is Ron Rash’s subtlest exploration yet of the painful conflict between the bonds of home and the desire for independence.

‘An intellectually satisfying work of suspense . . . [The World Made Straight] reminds us of the sort of compelling literature a brave artist can fashion from the shards of such experience.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review

The World Made Straight is a wonderful, heartbreaking, heart-healing kind of work, a work of genius – genius and insight and poetry and the kind of language that whispers to me like music coming back off dense wet hills and upturned faces.’ Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

‘Rash writes in the tradition of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor and more contemporary writers such as Charles Frazier and Cormac McCarthy. His fiction occupies that strange, language-driven netherland between myth and realism. It’s a dark, poetic, blood-soaked world.’ Weekend Australian

ISBN: 9781922182999
Pages: 304