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New fiction from Bethany W. Pope - an LBA-winning author, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards They were named by the Huffington Post as 'one of the five Expat poets to watch in 2016'. Nicholas Lezard, writing for The Guardian, described their latest poetry collection, Silage, as 'literature as salvation'. Edwardian Florida. The swamplands of Tampa provide a tough but good living for those men hardy enough to brave the weather and the wildness. There are ripe pickings to be had in bird hunting; egret feathers plucked by the sack-full and sent away to adorn rich city-women's hats. Wives for these rough hunters are ordered from catalogues, attractiveness graded by cooking skills and hip-width. When illness sweeps the area and the local minister dies, his widow, his beloved Rose, succumbs to madness. His daughter Joy must struggle to keep them both alive in what has become a skeleton town, rotting into the swamp and abandoned by all but the most ruthless. Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

The Hungry and the Lost

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New fiction from Bethany W. Pope - an LBA-winning author, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards They were named... Read more

    Publisher: Parthian Books
    Publication Date: 23/07/2021
    ISBN13: 9781913640200, 978-1913640200
    ISBN10: 1913640205

    Number of Pages: 350

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    New fiction from Bethany W. Pope - an LBA-winning author, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards They were named by the Huffington Post as 'one of the five Expat poets to watch in 2016'. Nicholas Lezard, writing for The Guardian, described their latest poetry collection, Silage, as 'literature as salvation'. Edwardian Florida. The swamplands of Tampa provide a tough but good living for those men hardy enough to brave the weather and the wildness. There are ripe pickings to be had in bird hunting; egret feathers plucked by the sack-full and sent away to adorn rich city-women's hats. Wives for these rough hunters are ordered from catalogues, attractiveness graded by cooking skills and hip-width. When illness sweeps the area and the local minister dies, his widow, his beloved Rose, succumbs to madness. His daughter Joy must struggle to keep them both alive in what has become a skeleton town, rotting into the swamp and abandoned by all but the most ruthless. Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

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