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The Clearing
Tim Gautreaux
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Description for The Clearing
Paperback. The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s Louisiana. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262.
Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.
Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340828908
SKU
V9780340828908
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99-50
About Tim Gautreaux
Born and raised in Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux lives there still with his family. His stories have been published in Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories, and collected in two volumes. Acclaimed as 'one of the best writers to have emerged in the 1990s' by Kirkus Reviews, his first novel, ... Read more
Reviews for The Clearing
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one
Jem Poster, Guardian
Astonishingly powerful ... brilliantly written and the characters in their mire are superbly realised
Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph
An extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in ... Read more
Jem Poster, Guardian
Astonishingly powerful ... brilliantly written and the characters in their mire are superbly realised
Toby Clements, Daily Telegraph
An extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in ... Read more