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In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.
C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, historic figures, America's last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.
Published | Nov 13 2012 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 304 |
ISBN | 9781608198559 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury USA |
Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
A kind of Dust Bowl Lolita . . . A gritty, gripping read.
Los Angeles Times
Impressive . . . A strong literary voice who can render period with authority and violence without sensationalism.
Publishers Weekly
A superb first novel, based on a true story . . . written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph . . . Extraordinarily moving reading.
The Guardian
[A] compelling novel . . . Readers can't help but open their hearts to Lottie . . . Her story with all its gritty details and twists deserves wide readership
Library Journal (starred review)
Hard Twisted is fictional crime, with an exceptional true story as its spine, written in prose as stylish and engaging as one will find... [A] compelling saga of murder, mystery, and good and evil at its rawest in the hardscrabble rural Southwest of the 1930s.
Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter and Four Days in November
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