04393cam a2200373 4500 284626923 TxAuBib 20170213120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478945826 1478945826 783c0b26-eae9-43ee-a530-05be3fd77fd7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3007149 OverDrive (Product ID) 3007149 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smith, Michael Farris. Desperation Road [Libby]. Hachette Book Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 215MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 215MB. Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Romance. HTML:November 14, 2016 Like those in his 2013 novel, Rivers, the characters in Smith’s latest struggle to put the past behind them—but this time, the storms that have torn their lives apart are mostly of their own making. Russell Gaines has served 11 years in prison for killing a man while driving drunk. Released, he rides the bus back to his home in McComb, Miss., only to be beaten and threatened with revenge by the dead man’s brothers. That same evening, homeless onetime addict Maben Jones also heads toward McComb. Without cash and transport, she leaves her young daughter, Annalee, sleeping in a cheap motel and tries to turn some tricks in the parking lot. Instead, a deputy abducts and rapes her. Grabbing his gun, Maben shoots him to death and flees the scene. As she tries to protect Annalee and evade capture, her path and Russell’s cross—but whether they will help or just endanger each other is far from clear. The plot’s gritty outlines notwithstanding, Smith is a meticulous craftsman who evokes his protagonists and their world with patience and subtlety. Ultimately, the road of the novel’s title moves not just through desperation, but also into a tentative landscape of hope, and perhaps even redemption. Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Media Group.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up for manslaughter, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns to his South Mississippi hometown, he faces blood-thirsty revenge. Larry and Walt, older brothers of the young man Russell killed so many years ago, have had the calendar marked. They greet Russell the instant he steps off the bus with hard fists and dire promises. On the same day that Russell comes back, a homeless woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spends their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running down a desolate back road holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled across the asphalt. When Russell later rides up on the scene with the loaded shotgun he's gotten for protection tucked behind the seat of his father's truck, the eyes of the law can't help but look toward him. Along these dark back roads, lives twisted with regret intersect with violent and vengeful consequences as the differences between right and strong shift like the southern sky. Desperation Road, written in powerful and lyrical prose, is a story of troubled souls bound by a secret that stretches over the years and across the land.. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-02-12 23:00:02. Bloodworth, Robin. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=783c0b26-eae9-43ee-a530-05be3fd77fd7 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3007149-DesperationRoad.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=783c0b26-eae9-43ee-a530-05be3fd77fd7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/3007149-DesperationRoad.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=783c0b26-eae9-43ee-a530-05be3fd77fd7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)