Edge of Dark Water - Softcover

Lansdale, Joe R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316250503 ISBN 13: 9780316250504

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2013

Synopsis

An Edgar Award winner blends Mark Twain's humor and Stephen King's suspense in this darkly compelling novel of three friends determined to take their friend's ashes to Hollywood.
May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.

Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.

Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood.

Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.

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Review:

"The strongest, truest, and most pitch-perfect narration since Huck Finn's. Marvelous and terrifying, EDGE OF DARK WATER is the result of real genius at work. A masterpiece."--Dan Simmons, author of The Terror and Drood

"Joe Lansdale has long been one of our finest and most difficult to classify writers. You can call his writing supernatural, horror, crime, or plain Southern, as long as you remember to call it great. Always a generous storyteller, in EDGE OF DARK WATER he offers a beautifully spun tale of life in the sticks, friendship and mortality, and tells it with the wit, humor and pure-dee power we've come to expect of him."--Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone

"EDGE OF DARK WATER describes a trip downriver that is one-half "Huck Finn", one-half "Deliverance", and entirely Joe Lansdale. If you aren't familiar with the work of this true American original, and master of hillbilly noir, climb in the boat and hang on for dear life: the water is rough."--Joe Hill, author of the New York Times bestseller Horns and A Heart-Shaped Box

"Joe Lansdale always transports me. In EDGE OF DARK WATER, he takes me to the mysterious brooding landscape of Twain and Faulkner, with a compelling twist that is all Lansdale."--David Morrell, "New York Times" bestselling author of "First Blood" and "Creepers"

"Scenes that stand your hair on end while you fall out of your chair laughing."-- Chicago Sun-Times, on Leather Maiden

"Joe R. Lansdale has a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."-- The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

Mark Twain crossed with crime fiction - a Depression-era noir by fan favourite Joe Lansdale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0316250503
• ISBN 13: 9780316250504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418