Soil

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. A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller, Soil traces one man's apocalypse to its epic showdown in the Mississippi mudflats.

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Product details

• Authors: Jamie Kornegay
• Publisher: Two Roads
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.08.2015
• EAN: 9781444782950
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-8295-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Two Roads
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary