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CONTENT

1. FOREWORD – AT A GLANCE

2. Tom Franklin: LIFE & WORKS

2.1 Biography

2.2 Contemporary Background

The South

Chicago

Race

Class and social status

Religion

2.3 Notes on other works

3. ANALYSES AND INTERPRETATIONS

3.1 Origins and sources

3.2 Summaries

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3.3 Structure

The title

Chronology

Symmetries

Suspense and foreshadowing

Crime fiction and collateral damage

3.4 Characters: Constellations & Characteristics

Larry Ott

Silas Jones

Carl Ott

Ina Jean Ott

Alice Jones

Wallace Stringfellow

Cindy Walker

Other characters

Constellations

3.5 Themes

Memory, the past and secrets

Guilt, responsibility and betrayal

Power

Race: Identity and taboos

Horror and monsters – outsiders

Redemption

3.6 Style and Language

Vivid similes and symbolic imagery

Symbols: The mask and the cabin

Irony

3.7 Interpretations

Agatha Christie and the whodunit

Raymond Chandler and noir

How Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter fits in

4. CRITICAL RECEPTION

5. MATERIALS

The American South

6. SAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Task 1*

Task 2**

Task 3***

Literatur

Edition used for this study guide

About the author

Reviews

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