“Such authentic atmosphere that you smell the swamps and canebrakes, see the lush Delta country, feel the burning days and breathless river nights; and a portrait of the wild habits of cotton folk … ” -Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL
“DOLLAR COTTON is an American GOOD EARTH set in the Mississippi delta …. It is life in the raw.”
“Only superlative adjectives fit John Faulkner’s prose. It is the starkest, the barest, the leanest. And it’s strong meat.” -Akron BEACON JOURNAL
“The madness of boom times in the Delta … a tragic, brutal, powerful tale.” St. Louis GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
This is the story of Otis Town, a hard, silent hill-man whose brute strength and unswerving passions carved a cotton kingdom out of the steaming Mississippi canebrakes. It is the record of a man’s merciless drive for wealth, of the women he took-of the family that betrayed him. Here is John Faulkner’s stirring novel of blatant power and secret corruption, a novel which TIME magazine hailed as: “The vivid history of Delta cotton and the people who raised it.”
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