Bull mountain / Brian Panowich.
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TextPublisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback editionDescription: 311 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780425282281
- 0425282287
- Los Angeles Times book prizes finalist
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Mystery | PANOWICH BRIAN | BM 1 | Available | 33111010552483 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel
From a remarkable voice in Southern fiction comes a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.
Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family's criminal empire, Clayton took the job of sheriff in a neighboring community to keep what peace he can. But when a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms shows up at Clayton's office with a plan to shut down the mountain, his hidden agenda will pit brother against brother, test loyalties, and could lead Clayton down a path to self-destruction.
In a sweeping narrative spanning decades and told from alternating points of view, the novel brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the mountain and its inhabitants: forbidding, loyal, gritty, and ruthless. A story of family--the lengths men will go to protect it, honor it, or in some cases destroy it-- Bull Mountain is an incredibly assured debut that heralds a major new talent in fiction.
"Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."--Wiley Cash, New York Times -bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy
"A novel"--Cover.
Includes "Book ends", with discussion guide, music and literature, and a conversation with the author.
A multigenerational saga set in the mountains of north Georgia, where the Burroughs family has been running shine, pot, and meth for decades. Rogue son Clayton Burroughs has become a local sheriff to keep what peace he can, until an ATF agent who's not quite what he seems throws a wrench into the works.
Los Angeles Times book prizes finalist