Night Letter [Hardcover]

An atmospheric coming-of-age story equally touched by noir and Southern soul. Watson evocatively blends the dreamy, hormonally addled banality of teen life with the existential anxieties of lost innocence and regret. Fans of S.E. Hinton's rough-hewn teens and the gothic noir of Tennessee Williams will welcome this bittersweet tale of redemption. Compelling . . . Watson crafts the plot of A taut thriller with a noir gloss, In this bleak and beautiful noir, we follow 18-year-old Travis Hollister, just released from reform school, driving through the Florida panhandle, and trying to find the woman hes pined for since he was 12his aunt, whos also four years older. Publishers Weekly compares it to the works of S. E. Hinton, which is really all I need to know to want to read it. With Night Letter, Florida author Sterling Watson proves once more that he is a master storyteller and an exemplary writer . . . Through the taut thriller/noir fabric of this novel, Watson writes with a precision and eloquence befitting the best of literature. A superbly crafted work of eloquent storytelling, Watson does a good job with atmosphere, too, in this noirish coming-of-age novel whose convoluted plot will keep the pages turning. Sterling Watson's In The novels of Sterling Watson are to be treasured and passed on to the next generation. Sterling Watson is an American treasure.