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Franklin, Tom.
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Cowboys -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Vigilantes -- Fiction.
Alabama -- Fiction.
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Cowboys -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Vigilantes -- Fiction.
Alabama -- Fiction.
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Smonk
, or, Widow town : being the scabrous adventures of E.O.
Smonk
& of the whore Evavangeline in Clarke County, Alabama, early in the last century-- / Tom Franklin.
by
Franklin, Tom.
William Morrow, c2006.
Call #:
FICTION FRA
Subjects
Cowboys -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Vigilantes -- Fiction.
Alabama -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780060846817
006084681X (acid-free paper)
Alternate title:
Smonk
Widow town
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
" 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—all 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."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Humorous fiction.
Western stories.
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