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Raymond L. Atkins
Dear Librarian, SORROW WOOD combines humor, pathos, mystery, reincarnation, and romance to present the lives and times of Reva and Wendell Blackmon. Reva is the reluctant probate judge in Sand Valley, Alabama. Her husband, Wendell, is the disgruntled policeman in this same small town. And the pair has loved one another down the long corridors of time. They live in a rock castle courtesy of Franklin Roosevelt, Reva walks on one leg thanks to a drunken engineer on the Southern Pacific, and Wendell rides herd on a collection of reprobates such as Deadhand Riley, Gilla Newman, and Blossom Hogan. Publishers Weekly applauded SORROW WOOD's "subtle humor and mostly pitch-perfect prose (that) distinguish Atkins's compelling mix of mystery and romance. Atkins (The Front Porch Prophet) smoothly weaves past into present as the action builds to a final poignant twist." Please visit www.raymondlatkins.com for more information. Raymond L. Atkins
Sorrow Wood / Raymond L. Atkins / Medallion Press / Hardcover; 400 Pages
Price: $24.95 / ISBN: 978-1934755631 / Published: August, 2009 Raymond L. Atkins is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view his reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |