TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollock,Donald Ray
TI  - The heavenly table: a novel 
SN  - 9780385541299
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Farmers
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Noir fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family's entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it? In the gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre's literary masters.--
ER  -