ISBN 978-1-929490-29-5
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140 pages
6 x 9"
$16.95
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An Exile
by Madison Jones
Illustrated by Dean Bornstein
An Exile
is the story of a middle-aged man's exile from his former values and so
from himself. At forty-one, Hank Tawes is the sheriff of a small town in the
Tennessee hills. He is an honest man, admired and respected, and—he
thinks—a good man. But Tawes is at the dangerous age. He has noticed the
swell of fat around his middle, the sag under his jaw. His marriage
founders, and his wife, who nags at him, thinks he can do better. She wants
more money—and a place in the rigid middle-class world that is superseding
their town's old social pattern. Tawes is dimly aware that a new order is
threatening his identity and that he is experiencing an increasing sense of
loss of childhood and of love.
No man is more ready for temptation. And it comes. A
moonshiner uses his daughter to seduce the sheriff. Thus hooked, Tawes can
keep the "Feds" from finding the still. Guilt-ridden by his desire for the
moonshiner's daughter, Tawes is powerless to break his bondage and becomes
enmeshed in deceit. What follows is the story of Hank's destruction, his
rationalization, his struggle to live in two worlds at the same time, and
his final, shattering confrontations when he reaches the bottom of the hill.
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