The Acorn Plan: A Novel

by Tim McLaurin

Overview

"Tim McLaurin gives us the raw world of a Southern mill town, and a young man's passage through its pity and terror to manhood. His is an extraordinary talent." —James Dickey

Open The Acorn Plan and listen to its sad, comic chorus of Southern voices, and to the story of Billy Riley, a brooding, reckless young man struggling to resolve the competing claims of love, loyalty, and ambition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393306163
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/1989
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tim McLaurin lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

What People are Saying About This

Lee Smith

A novel about people who work in cotton mills and eat pork chop sandwiches and are bound to get knee-walking drunk on Mad Dog 20-20 wine, people who fight with knives and hate and love like crazy, and dream wild dreams. Tim McLaurin is a wonderful writer.

James Dickey

Tim McLaurin gives us the raw world of a southern mill town and a young man's passage through pity and terror to manhood. His is an extraordinary talent.

Harry Crews

The Acorn Plan is a powerful and compelling novel by a young writer who has a talent and voice all his own.

Editorial Reviews

"A powerful and compelling novel by a young writer who has a talent and voice all his own."

Harry Crews

"The Acorn Plan stays with me, bruising my heart like the lonely memory of a freight train passing through the middle of the night."

Louise Shivers

"A novel about people who work in cotton mills and eat pork chop sandwiches and are bad to get knee-walking drunk on Mad Dog 20/20 win, people who fight with knives, and hate and love like crazy and dream wild dreams. Tim McLaurin is a wonderful writer."

Lee Smith

``This straightforward, hard-edged coming-of-age novel focuses on 22-year-old Billy Riley, an intelligent but undisciplined Marine veteran whose life has begun to parallel that of his unemployed, alcoholic Uncle Bubble,'' wrote PW . ``Firmly controlled and laced with wry humor, this engaging narrative is buoyed by strong, individualistic characters.'' (Oct.)

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