Tom Franklin
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4.04 | 2349 Users | 260 Reviews
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| Title | : | Hell at the Breech |
| Author | : | Tom Franklin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | February 16th 2004 by Flamingo (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Gothic. Southern Gothic. American. Southern. Westerns |
Explanation Toward Books Hell at the Breech
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- —mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty. Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four people: the aging sheriff sympathetic to both sides; the widowed midwife who delivered nearly every member of Hell-at-the-Breech; a ruthless detective who wages his own war against the gang; and a young store clerk who harbors a terrible secret.
Based on incidents that occurred a few miles from the author's childhood home, Hell at the Breech chronicles the events of dark days that led the people involved to discover their capacity for good, evil, or for both.
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| Original Title: | Hell at the Breech |
| ISBN: | 0002261596 (ISBN13: 9780002261593) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mack Burke, William Burke, Widow Gates, Quincy "Tooch" Bedsole, Sheriff Billy Waite |
| Setting: | Clarke County, Alabama,1897(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction (2004), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2006) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Hell at the Breech
Ratings: 4.04 From 2349 Users | 260 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books Hell at the Breech
Bloody hell! Violent, violent, achingly poignant. I loved this outstanding work by Franklin but will not reread because of the - did I mention? - intense and (to me) over-the-top violence. If we're gone level things with the folks responsible for killing my cousin, we're gone have to level the whole goddamn town of Grove Hill,". And yep - Tooch Bedsole and his group of vigilantes basically kill nearly everybody around.Somebody did in fact kill Tooch's cousin, but (view spoiler)[ it was anWhen I was a young 'un, when everything was new and there was no bitter experience to cast a cynical shade over whatever was before me, I would read everything. If it had letters, I would read it. There's this exercise the teacher pulled out sometime in early elementary school and then later in late high school, a paragraph where you were supposed to count all the letter e's. In high school, I'd forgotten the trick of it and missed all the ones in the small words, the ones I'd skim over in my
This is a favorite plot line of mine, ever since No Country for Old Men (McCarthy). The aging sheriff doubting if he has what it takes to put down the freshest manifestation of violence. It is a true story of a gang in the wilderness of Alabama that sprouted post slavery when poor white sharecroppers brought in the cotton and barely survived. An excellent description of picking cotton is provided, along with other authentic characterizations of the place, the detailed tools and items used, and
Tooch BedsoleBased on a true story, it tells the story of the rise and fall of a criminal syndicate in a small post-Civil War south Alabama community. The violence and people are disturbing. Franklin does a beautiful job with the details.Mitcham Beat Schoolhousehttp://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/...
For book lovers, the pleasure and discovery of browsing through a bookstore's shelves can never be replaced or replicated by visiting an online site. A couple of months ago, I was browsing through an independent bookstore in Mendocino, California and happened upon HELL AT THE BREECH by Tom Franklin, which was published in 2003 and yet was still stocked on the shelves as a new title. Imagine a chain bookstore holding on to a title that long. I doubt I ever would have discovered the book
This book has been on my shelf for years waiting patiently for the right time for me to read it. I've read two or three other Tom Franklin books and found them all excellent but this one takes the cake. In one sense you have a war that appears pretty typical, in fiction anyway, with good guys and bad guys. But the more you get into it the more you realize that there is a lot more to it when you look at the participants as individuals. You start to see that the so-called villains have some
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