Synopses & Reviews
Open and listen to its sad, comic chorus of Southern voices, and to the story of Billy Riley, a brooding, reckless young man struggling to resolve the competing claims of love, loyalty, and ambition.
Review
"How can you resist a book that begins, 'Bubble Riley decided to drink all the wine in the world the night Billy cut the soldier's lung in half'? It's a fine and appropriate opening line, for is about excess--too much drinking, fighting, pride, family history--and Tim McLaurin conveys his understanding of such things in a clear Southern voice." New York Times Book Review
Review
"A novel about people who work in cotton mills and eat pork chop sandwiches and are bad to get knee-walking drunk on Mad Dog 20/20 win, people who fight with knives, and hate and love like crazy and dream wild dreams. Tim McLaurin is a wonderful writer." Lee Smith
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" stays with me, bruising my heart like the lonely memory of a freight train passing through the middle of the night." Louise Shivers
Review
"A powerful and compelling novel by a young writer who has a talent and voice all his own." Harry Crews
Synopsis
"Tim McLaurin gives us the raw world of a Southern mill town, and a young man's passage through its pity and terror to manhood. His is an extraordinary talent." --James Dickey
About the Author
Tim McLaurin lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.