The Tilted World (31 page)

Authors: Tom Franklin,Beth Ann Fennelly

TOM FRANKLIN is the award-winning and
New York Times
bestselling author of
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
, which was nominated for nine awards and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include
Poachers
, whose title story won the Edgar Award, as well as
Hell at the Breech
and
Smonk
. The winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.

BETH ANN FENNELLY has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists, as well as a Fulbright grant to travel to Brazil. Her honors include the Kenyon Review Prize and three inclusions in
The Best American Poetry
. She has published three volumes of poetry as well as a work of nonfiction,
Great with Child
. She directs the University of Mississippi’s MFA program, where she was named the 2011 Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Beth Ann and Tom live in Oxford, Mississippi, with their three children.

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Also by Tom Franklin

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Smonk

Hell at the Breech

Poachers: Stories

Also by Beth Ann Fennelly

Open House: Poems

Unmentionables: Poems

Tender Hooks: Poems

N
onfiction

Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

Credits

Cover design by Adam Johnson

Cover photographs: flood scene © by Everett Collection Inc./Alamy; front waves courtesy of the Library of Congress

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE TILTED WORLD
. Copyright © 2013 by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-206918-4

EPUB Edition OCTOBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062069207

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