New fiction from Bethany W. Pope - an LBA-winning author, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards They were named by the Huffington Post as 'one of the five Expat poets to watch in 2016'. Nicholas Lezard, writing for The Guardian, described their latest poetry collection, Silage, as 'literature as salvation'. Edwardian Florida. The swamplands of Tampa provide a tough but good living for those men hardy enough to brave the weather and the wildness. There are ripe pickings to be had in bird hunting; egret feathers plucked by the sack-full and sent away to adorn rich city-women's hats. Wives for these rough hunters are ordered from catalogues, attractiveness graded by cooking skills and hip-width. When illness sweeps the area and the local minister dies, his widow, his beloved Rose, succumbs to madness. His daughter Joy must struggle to keep them both alive in what has become a skeleton town, rotting into the swamp and abandoned by all but the most ruthless. Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

About the Author
Bethany W. Pope has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and has won many literary awards. Their poetry collections include: A Radiance, Crown of Thorns, The Gospel of Flies, Undisturbed Circles, The Rag and Boneyard, and Silage. Their debut novel, Masque, was published in 2016. Bethany currently lives and works in China and recently gave birth to a son.


Book Information
ISBN 9781913640200
Author Bethany W. Pope
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books