“Call it Southern Noir or Southern Gothic or the legacy of Larry Brown but the reality is Michael Farris Smith is writing with one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in current fiction.” Square Books “ Blackwood burrows deep into the dark heart of the Gothic South to unearth terrifying beauty alongside startling desperation. Smith’s prose is both raw and poetic, like opera sung at a honky-tonk.”. Blackwood book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace /5(). And layered over everything are the vines - alive, dark, creeping, hiding: “Somethins out there.” ‘Blackwood’ is my third novel by Michael Farris Smith and the fir A foulrunning Cadillac carries three misfits with no place to be/5.
"Michael Farris Smith has blown me away again with his powerful words and depiction of a small town in the South"—Page Books "Michael Farris Smith is writing with one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in current fiction"— Square Books. Michael Farris Smith is an award-winning writer whose novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, NPR, Southern Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next List, Barnes Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, the Gold Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix des Lectrices in. Blackwood Michael Farris Smith. Little, Brown, $27 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Nick; Buy this book In Smith.
In Blackwood, Michael Farris Smith takes us down a creepy, kudzu-covered trail where a vicious predator prowls, and sometimes the truth seems better unseen. The best times in Red Bluff, Mississippi, are long gone. Blackwood is the evil in the woods, the wickedness that lurks in all of us. Praise for Blackwood and Michael Farris Smith 'If you're a fan of Southern or Rural Noir - James Lee Burke, Daniel Woodrell, Donald Ray Pollock, the literary children of Flannery O'Connor - you'll feel uncomfortably at home [ ] Though Farris Smith has five novels. by Michael Farris Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 3, Still bearing psychological scars from his childhood, Colburn, a junkyard sculptor, confronts the traumatic past when he returns to his hometown of Red Bluff, Mississippi. In , when he was a boy, Colburn's unloving father hung himself—an act the son not only witnessed, but also abetted.
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