Hungry and the Lost

The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style by Bethany W. Pope, an LBA-winning author and finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards. It pits the worlds of myth and innocence against the rational grip of progress and modernity.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 350 pages
Publication date: 23 July 2021
Publisher: Parthian Books

New fiction from Bethany W. Pope, an LBA-winning author, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Awards, has been garnering attention. The Huffington Post has recognized her as one of the five Expat poets to watch in 2016. Nicholas Lezard, writing for The Guardian, has praised her latest poetry collection, Silage, as literature as salvation. Set in Edwardian Florida, the novel delves into the rugged lives of hardy hunters in the swamplands of Tampa. They engage in bird hunting, where they gather egret feathers to adorn the hats of wealthy city women. The wives of these hunters are chosen from catalogues, with their attractiveness graded based on cooking skills and hip-width. However, 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. 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. It is rich with visceral imagery and offers a captivating portrayal of a bygone era.

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 128 x 202 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781913640200