Joe R. Lansdale is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Edge of Dark Water, the Edgar Award-winning "The Bottoms, """"Sunset and Sawdust," and "Leather Maiden."""He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.
" Hellish and hilarious . . . It's classic Lansdale, his own self
peppered throughout by much piney backwoods philosophizing on
everything from religion to whoring, [with] the author's long-ago
trademarked heaping helping of wry, often delightfully vulgar
humanism. "The Thicket" is a keeper and then some." --"Austin
Chronicle"
"Lansdale excels at giving his fans what they want...Many die, but
what's really dying here, Lansdale says, is a romanticized way of
life." --"Dallas Morning News"
"Lansdale offers up a coming-of-age Western adventure as
captivating as the best of Larry McMurtry and written in a style
reminiscent of Mark Twain. With intriguing, sometimes bumbling
characters and storytelling laced with bravado, good humor, action,
and heart...this title cannot help but captivate readers."
--Library Journal (starred review)
"The Bard of East Texas is back. . . . He has been writing
brilliantly about East Texas for three decades, but never has the
region appeared stranger or more violent than it does here. . . .
Memorable characters, a vivid sense of place, and an impressive
body count make "The Thicket" another Lansdale treasure."
--"Booklist" (starred)
"This latest work reads like a dark version of The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer and feels like a Coen brothers movie. It's the perfect
mix of light and dark, with plenty of humor mixed in." --"Houston
Chronicle"
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