Fallen Land
A Horror, Contemporary, Literature book. Just outside a large Midwestern city Louise Washington attempts to hang on to...
From the critically acclaimed author of Absolution, a literary page-turner set in the American heartland. Poplar Farm has been in Louise’s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down—a mini-massacre replicating the history of many farms before it, and the destruction of lives and societies taking place all across America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 425 pages
- ISBN: 9780857898784 / 857898787
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*SPOILER ALERT* As the description suggests, this haunting book is about the failure of the American dream. Builder Paul Krovik dreams of attaining great wealth through buying land and constructing an estate of faux-traditional homes. Louise Washington, an African-American woman whose family have owned the land for generations, is forced... Just outside a large Midwestern city Louise Washington attempts to hang on to the last pieces of Poplar Farm, which has been in her family for generations, as architect Paul Krovik develops a luxury suburb on tiny tracts around her. Though their creation has cost Paul his family and savings, the poorly constructed Victorian style homes... I could not finish this book. The characters we're believable and I could not care less about them. The plot was ridiculous. I could understand the themes he tried to explore, but it was too heavy-handed. George Orwell meets Stephen King meets B-movie.
