· Desperation Road is Michael Farris Smith's latest, the story of the intersection of two desperate people's lives and how far one will go to help the other. Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith | Review - Novel VisitsReviews: 1. Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith is a gritty, character driven thriller set in the stultifying heat of Mississippi. The novel evokes an America of lonely roads, dusty towns and of disillusioned, hard drinking characters - those living on the wrong side of the breadline and often, the wrong side of the law/5. “Welcome to Faulkner country, where the past is a force with a gravitational pull of its own. But Michael Farris Smith’s tale of two acts of violence and their tangled aftermath has a yearning voice all of its own.” Barnes Noble Discover Reviews “[Desperation Road] is told in a cool, detached style that flickers with poetic splendour. Repetitions, the falling cadences of country music, phrases strung together in long .
"Anchored by prose that is both poetic and brutal, Desperation Road is a gorgeous and violent book. But don't be fooled by the title. Michael Farris Smith's novel teems with the honest and believable humanity that only the bravest writers dare to search for in the most troubled souls. - Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street. Michael Farris Smith is the recipient of the Mississippi Author Award for Fiction and was awarded a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. His books include The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. He lives in Oxford, MS. Michael Farris Smith is the author of The Fighter, Desperation Road, Rivers, and The Hands of www.doorway.ru novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next List, Barnes Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month www.doorway.ru has been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, the Gold Dagger Award in.
Blackwood, optioned to Parker and Graham Phillips, who will direct and produce along with Michael Farris Smith. Desperation Road, with Christina Voros, of Yellowstone and other projects, set to direct. "Michael Farris Smith's Desperation Road reads as if it were forged in a fire stoked by the ghosts of Carson McCullers, Larry Brown, and William Gay. The result is a novel rife with violent beauty and incredible grace. desperation road by Michael Farris Smith ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 7, Two hard-luck cases collide in this smooth-flowing novel of the Deep South, where a Mississippi town harbors a long-brewing hunger for vengeance and a slim chance of redemption.
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