Brian Carpenter, Tom Franklin
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
Paperback
(University of South Carolina Press Aug. 23, 2012)
Drawing on storytelling traditions as old as southern literature itself, Grit Lit is the first anthology devoted to contemporary writing about the Rough South. From literary legends to emerging voices, the acclaimed writers featured in this collection view their hardscrabble South without romanticism or false nostalgia, not through moonlight and magnolia but moonshine and Marlboros. This is the dirty South as captured by those rooted in its land yet able to share its stories with candor and courage. Grit Lit guides readers through tales both tall and true, intoxicating stories of loss, violence, failure, feuds, family, and―above all―survival against the odds. Raw and raucous, Grit Lit gathers some of the most provocative writing to come out of the South in the last thirty years. With a preface by Edgar Award-winning author Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter's introduction to the genre's origins and influences, this bold anthology lays bare the Rough South in all its battered glory and dares readers not to stare in awe.
- Series
- Non Series
- ISBN
- 1611170834 / 9781611170832
- Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 19.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 1.0 in.
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