Tag Archives: Drug dealers

by | April 14, 2008 · 3:24 pm

Ron Rash. The World Made Straight. New York: Holt, 2006.

Past and present are entertwined in this novel when 17-year-old Travis Shelton begins to investigate his ancestors’ role in the 1863 Civil War massacre at Shelton Laurel. Travis has just dropped out of school and spends most of his time hanging out and reading history with a former teacher in Madison County, N.C. The teacher has turned to selling pot to make a living and needs Travis’s help when he gets in over his head with nearby drug dealers.

The World Made Straight won the 2006 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Madison, Mountains, Rash, Ron, Suspense/Thriller

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by | March 13, 2008 · 9:58 am

Martin Clark. The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living. New York: Knopf, 2000.

When Judge Martin Wheeler agrees to help the no-good brother of a friend who’s up on a drug charge, he is quickly sucked into the lives of a group of oddball characters on a mission to recover a bounty of stolen cash. Set in the fictional Piedmont town of Norton, N.C., near Winston-Salem, the novel follows Wheeler and his strange new friends through the seedy underside of contemporary southern life.

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Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Clark, Martin, Forsyth, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont

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