Blackwood book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace /5(). “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.”. 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 /5().
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's fifth novel, is Southern gothic noir at its most bleak and haunting. Beautifully written, moving and darkly disturbing, it takes us to a strange and frightening valley that is covered by impenetrable vines. All around the impoverished town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, the land is being swallowed by kudzu vines. 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.
"A timeless story of good and evil the luminous prose and depth of emotion Smith conjures in this beguiling book makes "Blackwood" one of the more literary entries in the [Southern noir] canon There is an inclination to read the book quickly, but the beauty of the language demands you slow down to savor it."—. Blackwood book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace. "Blackwood is a solid page turner, written in smooth prose"—Associated Press "Unsettling, heartbreaking, and frequently astonishing, this Southern gothic never runs out of revelations Such is the power of Smith's pitch-black poetic vision that the deeper you get into the book, the more entwined you are by its creeping effects A gleaming, dark masterpiece by one of Southern fiction's leading voices."—.
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