The Thicket
Book description
In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Thicket as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a cross-genre “mystery writer,” I’m not big on fiction classifications. This book, like most great books, defies pigeonholing. Some would say “crime novel,” some “western,” others “thriller,” others still, “adventure.”
Regardless, if the first sentence of this book doesn’t hook you, nothing will. It is nothing short of mastery. Character-driven story-telling at its finest, running a reader through a gauntlet of gut-wrenching emotions with ease—poignant, gritty, tongue-in-cheek, and often horrific. Perfectly seasoned with Texas cornpone, this coming-of-age western tale is a fist full. I loved it.
From Michael's list on brilliant genre defying storytelling.
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