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Lansdale an elderly man sits in a nursing home, with plenty of time to remember and relive his boyhood in an area of east texas known as the bottoms. Hap collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. Wondering where you should start with the work of joe lansdale. The bottoms won the edgar award in 2000 and is definitely a book that will stay resolutely in your thoughts long after youve finished. Buy the bottoms by joe r lansdale online at alibris. Books by joe r lansdale authors like joe r lansdale what should i read next register for free to build your own book lists. Author joe r lansdales complete list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. Lansdale is a fresh discovery, decades in the making the.
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Lansdale, including the bottoms, and the living dead, and more on. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. The bottoms by joe lansdale takes place in 1930s east texas. Lansdale also penned two jonah hex series for vertigo jonah hex. He has received nine bram stoker awards, the american mystery award, the british fantasy award, a critics choice award, and the grinzane cavour prize for literature, among others. Lansdales first published work was a short story collection entitled stories by mama lansdales youngest boy. As you read the book, you get to relive events that were experienced by the narrator when he was a young boy and there was a serial killer on the loose in a raciallycharged town. Narrated by the elderly harry collins, the bottoms blends mystery, thriller, horror, and the best of literary fiction into a compelling story of racial relations in 1930s texas. Lansdale grew up in east texas, the son of a mechanic. Lansdale have been recommended to me so much in the last 34 years. Lansdale s first published work was a short story collection entitled stories by mama lansdale s youngest boy.
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