THE FIGHTER MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH MARKETING & SALES POINTS UK and France author tour September 2018 Previous novel, Desperation Road, longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2017 For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx 'Every once in a while an author comes along who's in love with art and written language and imagery... writers like William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx. You can add Michael Farris Smith's name to the list' - James Lee Burke Michael Farris Smith's first novel, Rivers, won the 2014 Mississippi Authors Award for Fiction and was named a Best Book of 2013 by Esquire Author appearing at Adelaide Writer's Week March 2018 THE BOOK Download high resolution image The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. Pub. Date: 20 September 2018 Price: £7.99 And so is the woman who gave it to him. The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of ISBN: 978-1-84344-994-2 abandonment now rests in a hospice. Her mind eroded by dementia, the family legacy she entrusted to Jack is Binding: Paperback now owned by banks and strangers. And Jack's mind is failing too, as concussion after concussion forces him Format: B (198 x 129mm) to carry around a notebook of names that separate friend from foe. Extent: 224 Weight: 218g In a single twisted night Jack is derailed. Losing the money that will clear his debt with the queen of Delta vice, Publishing UK & Commonwealth only, excl. Canada and forcing Jack into the fighting pit one last time. The stakes - nothing less than life or death. Rights: Sales Exclusive: UK & Commonwealth excl. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH Rights: Canada. Open Market: RoW. excl. North America 'As violent as it is poetic, The Fighter draws the reader in from beginning to end' - Publishers Weekly Market: Crime Fiction, Literary Fiction 'I loved The Fighter. Michael Farris Smith is one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction. BIC Code: FA: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Just as I couldn't put down Desperation Road till I finished, I tore through this novel, as well. I'm hooked' FF: Crime & mystery FH: Thriller / suspense - Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane 1KBBSM: Mississippi 'A dark and violent Southern grit-lit thriller. Fans of James Lee Burke will delight in the strong sense of BISAC Code: FIC019000: Fiction : Literary FIC025000: Fiction : Psychological place in the Deep South, while fans of David Joy will appreciate the protagonist's inner turmoil' - Library FIC050000: Fiction : Crime Journal THEMA Code: FBA: Modern & contemporary fiction FF: Crime & mystery fiction 'Michael Farris Smith is one of the best writers of his generation' - Tom Franklin, NYT bestselling Country of UK Manufacture: author of Crooked Letter and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Rpt. Code: IP '[Desperation Road] is an elegantly written, perfectly paced novel about a man and a woman, indelibly Previous 978-1-84344-993-5 marked by violence' - Ron Rash, NYT bestselling author of Serena and The Cove ISBNs: 978-1-84344-992-8 (hb) '[In Desperation Road] Smith depicts a steamy American South redolent of lawless menace in sparse, Marketing & PR simple, lyrical prose. He has produced a taut thriller that lays bare the legacy that violence leaves Tel: 01582 766 348 [email protected] behind it, as it builds relentlessly to a dramatic climax' - Daily Mail No Exit Press UK Distribution: Turnaround '[Desperation Road] flickers with poetic splendour… Repetitions, the falling cadences of country music, Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd phrases strung together in long passages of sustained beauty: it's rare for desperation to be rendered Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ with such intensity' - Spectator Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH (Location: Oxford, USA) noexit.co.uk/noexit.co.uk/thefighter @noexitpress Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of Rivers, The Hands of 2 Strangers and Desperation Road, which was long listed for a CWA Gold Dagger award. Rivers was named in numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and garnered the 2014 Mississippi Author Award for Fiction. He is also a recipient of the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, and the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature. His short stories have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his essays have appeared in The New York Times, Catfish Alley, Writer’s Bone, and more. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters. OTHER TITLES BY MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH Desperation Road Blackwood NICK 978-1-84344-991-1 978-0-85730-406-3 978-0-85730-453-7 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).