The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale
The Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale
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The Bottoms

Author: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrator: Brad Sanders

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/17/2023


Synopsis

This Edgar Award winner is "equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller" (Denver Post)—classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and most affecting form, with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow-moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.

Contains mature themes.

About Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Arah-Lynda on November 09, 2016

Once again I find myself sitting here scratching my head wondering how in the world can this be the first time I have read Joe R. Lansdale.  In truth I think I may have come across a short story or two in one anthology or another, but this is my first novel.  It will not be my last. The story unfolds......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 04, 2016

The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms by Joe Lansdale is a rousing atmospheric murder mystery with an abundance and it has to said, more than its fair share of tension and thought provoking issue. The Bottoms won the Edgar award in 2000 and is definitely a book that will stay resolutely in your......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on July 21, 2019

The works of Joe R. Lansdale have been recommended to me so much in the last 3-4 years. I have a strong affinity for coming-of-age tales so I was told very convincingly by several people that THE BOTTOMS was a must read. (Thanks to Steve and Chad!) I buddy read this with my friend Tracy and I'm not e......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on February 15, 2016

The Bottoms: Joe R. Lansdale's Edgar Award Winning Mystery The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale was chosen as a group read for February, 2016, by members of On the Southern Literary Trail. Special thanks to Jane for nominating this novel. Joe R. Lansdale Just a few weeks ago my neighbor handed me a c......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on November 08, 2023

10 stars. He is good. He is very, very good. He grabs your attention at the very beginning and doesn't let you go until the end. East Texas in the early 1,930s. Black prostitutes are being murdered in the woods. Mutilated. The 1st 1 was tied up to a tree with bobwhire. Towns people don't care.... Rac......more