Author(s): James Lee Burke

General Fiction

James Lee Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here Perry Woodson Hatfield Jones, torn between family honour and the lure of seedy 'watering holes' must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark heritage of the Cumberland Mountain, in a novel the New York Times called a 'surging, bitter novel, as authentic as moonshine'.