Red grass river

Description

James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Now he has written a powerful and rousing historical saga of family loyalties, blood feuds, and betrayed friendships; of bank robberies and bootlegging; and of a passionate love as wild at heart as the Everglades. It is the story of sworn enemies: John Ashley, a criminal and folk hero, the brightest star in a family destined to become the most notorious in south Florida; and Bobby Baker, a lawman born of lawmen, a violent, hard-hearted man driven by the searing memory of past affronts and the enduring hatreds the engendered. Ashley and Maker will clash many times over many decades. And as the twentieth century encroaches on their world—and the wildlands give grudging way to the rising boomtown of Miami—a feral, sensual mating will place one man in gravest peril...while his adversary contrives a dark, personal vengeance that could leave countless lives—his own included—in ruin.

First Sentence

THE BOY POLED THE SKIFF ALONG THE WINDING SAWGRASS CHANnel and heard now a faint chanting through the bird cries from the hardwood hammock just ahead.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• Red grass river: a legendAvon Books1998-01-01
• Red Grass RiverHarper Perennial2000-07-25
• Red Grass RiverElectronic resourceHarperCollins2007-01-01
• Red Grass RiverHarperCollins Publishers2009-01-01