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In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery OâConnor, Bill Chengâs Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past. Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome stormâhome, family, first loveâRobert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the deep South, from the desperation of a refugee camp to the fiery and raucous brothel Hotel Beau-Miel and into the Mississippi hinterland, where he joins a crew hired to clear the swamp and build a dam.Along his journey he encounters piano-playing hustlers, neâer-do-well Klansmen, well-intentioned whores, and a family of fur trappers, the LâEtangs, whose very existence is threatened by the swamp-clearing around them. The LâEtang brothers are fierce and wild but there is something soft about their cousin Frankie, possibly the only woman capable of penetrating Robertâs darkest places and overturning his conviction that heâs marked by the devil.Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, Southern Cross the Dog is a tour de force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
Hardcover:
9781447224891 | Pan Macmillan, October 24, 2013, cover price $25.25
9780062225009 | Ecco Pr, May 7, 2013, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery OâConnor, Bill Chengâs Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Paperback:
9781447224907 | Pan Macmillan, August 28, 2014, cover price $14.50
9780062225023 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, February 4, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery OâConnor, Bill Chengâs Southern Cross the Dog is an epic literary debut in which the bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Hardcover:
9781410465016 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, January 29, 2014), cover price $33.99 | About this edition: The Tilted World by Tom Franklin has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
9780062069184 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 2013, cover price $25.99
9780230767256 | Pan Macmillan, September 26, 2013, cover price $27.40 | About this edition: The Tilted World by Tom Franklin has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
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9780062069191 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, June 10, 2014), cover price $14.99
9780062292766 | Harpercollins, October 1, 2013, cover price $17.99
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