Tender As Hellfire

Joe Meno

Original title: Tender as hellfire

first published 1999 Akashic Books (Ignition), 2007

In Tender as Hellfire, first-time novelist Joe Meno limns a near-fantastical world of trailer park floozies, broken-down '76 Impalas, lost glass eyes, and the daily experiences of two boys trying to make sense of their random, sharp lives. Dough and Pill are brothers bound by more than blood. The anguish of their past, the terror of their present, and the uncertainty of their future all underscore the only truth that...

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Tender As Hellfire paperback · 2007 · Akashic Books · 205 pages · 9781933354309
Tender as Hellfire edition · 2007 · Akashic Books (Ignition) · 9781617750083
Tender as hellfire edition · 1999 · St. Martin's Press · 244 pages

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