These men live mere miles apart but were incarcerated in different prisons at different times in racially segregated Virginia there would be no reason for their paths to cross - except that each is the father of a gay son. Ex-con Buddy Lee Jenkins is a divorced, good-natured racist, drinking his life away in a trailer with a growing collection of empty beer cans and a suspicious cough. Ike Randolph is an ex-gang member who, some 15 years after his release from prison, has his life back on track - reunited with his wife and running a thriving landscaping business. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series, but its composition feels utterly unique, as if the elements of one’s waking life were scrambled in a dream.
Cosby’s original voice, action-packed scenes and unflinching examination of relationships earned him praise from a wide array of peers and critics, as well as the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for mystery/thriller.Ĭosby’s drive to expand the chorus of voices representing the South is on full display in his follow-up, “ Razorblade Tears.” The novel’s DNA - a Black man and a white man unite to fight a common foe - may seem familiar to readers of “Blacktop Wasteland” or Joe R.
A rubber-burning tale of Black and white criminals uniting to defeat a common foe, the novel was also a deep rumination on fathers and the impact of their absence. Cosby’s “ Blacktop Wasteland” came screaming across the literary landscape, shredding readers’ expectations about Southern life, race and crime. ( From the publisher.If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. Cosby’s Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime. Like Ocean’s Eleven meets Drive, with a Southern noir twist, S. Haunted by the ghost of who he used to be and the father who disappeared when he needed him most, Bug must find a way to navigate this blacktop wasteland … or die trying. And Bug is at his best where the scent of gasoline mixes with the smell of fear. When a smooth-talking former associate comes calling with a can't-miss jewelry store heist, Bug feels he has no choice but to get back in the driver's seat. He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble, he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast. A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.īeauregard "Bug" Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad.
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