This Rock

At their finest, his stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs.

Reminiscent of James Dickey- bearing the same naturalistic marks of clear, clean prose and often disturbing imagery... Morgan casts a stark story peopled with real, believable, and honest characters.

Gripping storytelling, indelible sense of time and place... Morgan turns the stories of prosaic lives into page-turners.

Morgan writes "with an authority usually associated with the great novelist of the last century."