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Soil Author: Jamie Kornegay

ISBN: 9781444782936 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 368 Published: 10 March 2015 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 21.0 x 15.0 x 2.2 Description: The Coen Brothers meet Crime and Punishment - with a Mississippi twist

In a darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller, an idealistic young farmer moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin, suffers financial ruin - and becomes increasingly paranoid he's being framed for murder.

The Coen Brothers meet Crime and Punishment - with a Mississippi twist

It begins as a simple dream.

An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture.

Within a year, he is ruined.

When a corpse appears on his family's property, the farmer is convinced he's being set up. And so begins a journey into a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions, as the farmer, his now-estranged wife, a predatory deputy, and a backwoods wanderer, all try to uphold a personal sense of honour.

By turns hilarious and darkly disturbing, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the...

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