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Good country people and other stories

ISBN: 9780571396337
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Faber Fiction (UBD)
Origin: GB
Release Date: January, 2026

Book Details

Published to celebrate her centenary, whether you’re a superfan or meeting the Queen of Southern Gothic for the first time, this newly curated selection of her world-famous stories will dazzle you anew. The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas stations, people forge their own lives. We encounter murderers, escaped convicts, dysfunctional families, conmen, fanatics, farmhands, Bible salesmen, troubled children, gangsters, hypocrites, misfits and outcasts. These are characters marked by grotesque flaws, darkly humorous and oddly beautiful. Their complex humanity is revealed in apocalyptic moments of Gothic horror, absurdity and violence that transform all who witness them and us, too, as we realise that nothing in our moral universe is black and white. F