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Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly
The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who’d been on the trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.
Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the agents’ disappearance. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never be trusted.
When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it—in each other.

Im S?den Alabamas war es einst ?ppig und gr?n. Doch der alte S?den liegt in den letzten Atemz?gen, w?hrend der neue, moderne S?den das Leben der einfachen Leute in die Hand nimmt. Der Kampf um die Vorherrschaft und das ruhige, selbstbestimmte Dasein sind l?ngst vorbei, doch die alten Wunden m?ssen erst noch heilen. Sie sprechen von einer Welt der Jagd und des Fischfangs, des Gl?cksspiels und der Niederlage, des Trinkens und Wilderns. M?nner sind hier untreue Ehem?nner, Wildfrevler, skrupellose Intriganten, unsympathische M?rder. Sie betr?gen ihre Arbeitgeber, erpressen einander, machen Schulden, trinken zu viel und ignorieren Gesetze.
Mit dieser Sammlung von zehn Geschichten gelang Tom Franklin der Durchbruch. Diese seltsame, aber faszinierende Welt ist gef?llt mit mutigen Charakteren, die verloren sind, vertrieben wurden oder sich in einer Welt gefangen f?hlen, die sich l?ngst in die Zukunft bewegt hat, bevor sie sich darauf vorbereiten konnten.

«Mi Sur es la zona baja de Alabama, frondosa, verde y llena de muerte, los condados boscosos que se extienden entre los r?os Alabama y Tombigbee», donde las emociones corren con la misma crudeza que el alcohol de destilaci?n ilegal. Diez relatos sobrios y potentes en los que el autor evoca un paisaje de bosques y pantanos, cazadores y pescadores, furtivos y borrachos, parques de caravanas y basura blanca pobre. Personajes perdidos que reaccionan con violencia frente a un mundo agonizante de cuya gravedad no pueden escapar. «Con esta colecci?n de maridos lamentables, colegas in?tiles y matrimonios desgastados, es como si el autor hubiese secuestrado a los personajes de Raymond Carver y los hubiese dejado a su suerte en el Sur Profundo.» New York Times Book Review «Gracias a Dios los sure?os siguen escribiendo como sure?os; ?ngeles ca?dos que actualizan las viejas y oscuras costumbres. Franklin es el m?s reciente de la camada, y uno de los mejores.» Bob Shacochis «Los cuentos de Franklin me gustan tanto como la m?sica de Lucinda Williams. Se desarrollan en el Sur, por supuesto, pero componen una nueva canci?n para el Sur. Poseen una ternura inherente, aunque sean bruscos y duros.» Richard Ford «La fuerza de Franklin me tiene impresionado. El poder evocador de su prosa y la implacabilidad de su imaginaci?n me recuerdan a William Faulkner. Su autoridad al representar el mundo natural es deslumbrante.» Philip Roth «Furtivos es como una mano que surge del pantano verdoso en una noche sin luna y te tira de la canoa.» Tampa Tribune

Finales de los a?os setenta. Chabot, una peque?a localidad rural del sur de Mississippi. Larry es un adolescente solitario y triste que se pasa todo el d?a encerrado en su cuarto leyendo libros de Stephen King. Su padre, due?o del taller en la carretera 11, dice que es un negado para la mec?nica. Una ma?ana, camino del colegio, recogen en la carretera a una mujer negra y a su hijo, Silas, que, desde hace unos d?as, viven como refugiados en una caba?a de caza en mitad del bosque. Los dos adolescentes, pese a tenerlo todo en contra, clase, raza y modo de vida, forjan un fuerte v?nculo de amistad. Sus vidas cambian la noche en que Cindy Walker desaparece y nunca vuelve a saberse de ella. M?s de veinte a?os despu?s, Larry, condenado al ostracismo, lleva una existencia solitaria a cargo del viejo taller de su padre. Silas ha regresado despu?s de una prolongada ausencia y se ha convertido en el alguacil del pueblo. Cada uno lleva su vida como buenamente puede. Silas ve a Larry de vez en cuando al pasar con el coche por delante del taller de camino a cualquier otra parte. Procura que sus miradas no se crucen. Pero los dos viejos «amigos» se ver?n obligados a retomar el contacto y a confrontar un doloroso pasado. Los buitres han hallado en el r?o el cad?ver descompuesto de un conocido camello de poca monta y acaba de desaparecer otra chica.

Die K?nigs Erl?uterung Spezial zu Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter in englischer Sprache ist eine verl?ssliche und bew?hrte Textanalyse und Interpretationshilfe f?r Sch?ler und weiterf?hrende Informationsquelle f?r Lehrer und andere Interessierte: verst?ndlich, ?bersichtlich und pr?gnant. Info: Abiturthema in Baden-W?rttemberg. In einem Band bieten dir die K?nigs Erl?uterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur oder Matura ben?tigst. Das spart dir l?stiges Recherchieren und kostet weniger Zeit zur Vorbereitung. Alle wichtigen Infos zur Interpretation… – von der ausf?hrlichen Inhaltsangabe ?ber Aufbau, Personenkonstellation, Stil und Sprache bis zu Interpretationsans?tzen – Abituraufgaben mit Musterl?sungen … sowohl kurz als auch ausf?hrlich … – Die Schnell?bersicht fasst alle wesentlichen Infos zu Werk und Autor und Analyse zusammen. – Die Kapitelzusammenfassungen zeigen dir das Wichtigste eines Kapitels im ?berblick – ideal auch zum Wiederholen. … und klar strukturiert … – Ein zweifarbiges Layout hilft dir Wesentliches einfacher und schneller zu erfassen. – Die Randspalte mit Schl?sselbegriffen erm?glichen dir eine bessere Orientierung. – Klar strukturierte Schaubilder verdeutlichen dir wichtige Sachverhalte auf einen Blick.

A popular Southern grit-lit author, Franklin took a bizarre turn in his second novel, which is like a Peckinpah Western scribbled over by O’Connor and Hannah, or HBO’s Deadwood on acid. The story is set in an Alabama town and follows a malady-ridden, one-eyed dwarf, and a teenage prostitute as they embark on a violent jumble of glorious depravity. Franklin cranks up the Gothic tricks to eleven here, cleverly skewering the South’s contradictory attitudes on violence, sex, and religion. A lightning-stuck performance guaranteed to offend.

Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for character-ization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy.

Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county—and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.

More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.

Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the Rough South. From literary legends to emerging voices, the acclaimed writers featured in this collection view their hardscrabble South without romanticism or false nostalgia, not through moonlight and magnolia but moonshine and Marlboros.

This is the dirty South as captured by those rooted in its land yet able to share its stories with candor and courage. Grit Lit guides readers through tales both tall and true, intoxicating stories of loss, violence, failure, feuds, family, and―above all―survival against the odds. Raw and raucous, Grit Lit gathers some of the most provocative writing to come out of the South in the last thirty years. With a preface by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter's introduction to the genre's origins and influences, this bold anthology lays bare the Rough South in all its battered glory and dares readers not to stare in awe.