A Hanging at Cinder Bottom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941040096)

The year is 1910. Halley's Comet has just signaled the end of the world, and Jack Johnson has knocked out the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries. Keystone, West Virginia, is the region's biggest boomtown, and on a rainy Sunday morning in August, its townspeople are gathered in a red-light district known as Cinder Bottom to witness the first public hanging in over a decade. Abe Baach and Goldie Toothman are at the gallows, awaiting their execution. He's Keystone's most famous poker player; she's the madam of its most infamous brothel. Abe split town seven years prior under suspicion of armed robbery and murder, and has been playing cards up and down the coast, hustling under a variety of pseudonyms, ever since. But when he returns to Keystone to reunite with Goldie and to set the past right, he finds a brother dead and his father's saloon in shambles--and suspects the same men might be responsible for both. Only then, in facing his family's past, does the real swindle begin.

Glenn Taylor, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, has a unique voice that breathes life into history and a prose style that snaps with lyricism and comedy.

Author: Glenn Taylor
ISBN-10: 1941040098
ISBN-13: 9781941040096
Publisher: Tin House Books
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2015
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 7.86h x 4.80w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2015
Entertainment Weekly 07/10/2015 pg. 108
New York Times Book Review 08/02/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 08/09/2015 pg. 28