When young Harry Crane discovers a mutilated body bound to a tree with barbed wire in the river bottoms, the underbelly of East Texas is exposed.

Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color. The woods are thick, the rivers wild, the weather ripe with tornadoes, and the Crane family, like most families in that neck of the woods, are eking out a thin living. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. The Bottoms is an Edgar award-winning novel that is told in first-person by Harry Collins, an old man in a rest home, that reflects on his time as a boy in. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. Dust jacket housed in protective mylar jacket.Ī thriller with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee, The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form. This career retrospective of his best crime stories shows exactly Lavie Tidhar, author of Central Station and Maror, calls Champion Joe the spiritual heir to. Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. The Edgar Award winning, racially-themed novel is set in East Texas and follows an adolescent boy, his little sister, and their father who stumble across the body of a black woman who has been. *Title page has been flat-signed by author, Joe R. Lansdale FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING THE MYSTERIOUS PRESS

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