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Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Texas, East -- Fiction.
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Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-
Orphans -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Texas, East -- Fiction.
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The
thicket
/ Joe R. Lansdale.
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Lansdale, Joe R., 1951-
Little Brown & Co, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION LAN
Subjects
Orphans -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Texas, East -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780316188456
031618845X
Description:
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Mulholland Books".
Summary:
"Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box). Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas--orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot). In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme. In The
Thicket
, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure equal parts True Gritand Stand by Me--the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm--or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review)"--Publisher.
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Historical fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
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