- Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Reissue edition (1 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671743074
- ISBN-13: 978-0671743079
- Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,423,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"No one can paint word pictures as vividly as Robert McCammon." -- Sandra Brown
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"It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children...."
With "one of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing" "(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), " Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love can create.
GONE SOUTH
chronicles a desperate man's journey through a desperate land, in "a gothic picaresque that mixes gritty plot and black comedy...a smoothly constructed and satisfying story" "(The Wall Street Journal )."
Flooded by memories, poisoned by Agent Orange, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of fear and fury -- and changes his life forever. Pursued by police and bounty hunters, Dan flees south toward the Louisiana bayous. In the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday, a young woman who bears the vivid burdens of her own past, and who is searching for a legendary faith healer called the Bright Girl. Looking for simple kindness in a world that rarely shows it, bound by a loyalty stronger than love, Dan and Arden set off on a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery...over dark, twisting waterways into the mysterious depths of the human heart.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
'Gone South' is the final book Robert McCammon completed before his early retirement - and it's a shame, because he was maturing into a writer that had outgrown the 'Horror' label he had given himself in the eighties. The novel focuses on a Vietnam veteran who commits murder whilst in an understandable rage. He goes on the run and a road-movie begins with the character coming across all sorts of weird and whacky people as he runs from the law. It is the bounty hunter, though, that takes the gong for weirdness and I can only picture David Lynch making this into a film. Dan Lambert, the main character, has a wonderfully sympathetic persona but McCammon never gets sugary and sentimental. There's a bit for everyone in this story - the road movie plot, the broken hero, a messed up bounty hunter, a couple of real, major psychos and a little romance to boot. This story could have been just a run of the mill thriller but in McCammon's warped head it is a moving but surreal 'chase across the states' story that moves with a frantic pace and never allows you to take a breather. Overall, 'Gone South' is not McCammon's best (we'll leave that for 'Boy's Life' and 'Swan Song') but that is not a bad thing. This story is a well structured thriller going through the hands of a horror writer that can create well rounded characters as efficiently as Stephen King.
'Gone South' is an enjoyable, touching and funky book.
'Gone South' is an enjoyable, touching and funky book.
Format:Paperback
"Gone South" starts on familiar enough ground: a Vietnam veteran with a terminal disease, trapped by poverty and divorce, lashes out and kills someone and goes on the run.
It is the places he runs to, and the people who pursue him, that take this tale out of the dreariness of ordinary life into a modern quest.
Although the story rocks along at a good pace, the characters we meet on the ride are sketched with depth and sympathy. And the ending deftly avoids the twin traps of anticlimax and disbelief.
Four stars.
It is the places he runs to, and the people who pursue him, that take this tale out of the dreariness of ordinary life into a modern quest.
Although the story rocks along at a good pace, the characters we meet on the ride are sketched with depth and sympathy. And the ending deftly avoids the twin traps of anticlimax and disbelief.
Four stars.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A fantastic tale about destiny. McCammon's fantastic writing skills tell a tale that is absorbing and characters that are so alive you feel their pain and love.
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