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  • By: Tom Franklin
  • Narrator: Brian D'Arcy James
  • Category: Fiction, Historical
  • Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: October 01, 2013
  • Language: English
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The Tilted World Audiobook Summary

Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly

The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who’d been on the trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene.

Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she’s the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the agents’ disappearance. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never be trusted.

When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it–in each other.

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The Tilted World Audiobook Narrator

Brian D'Arcy James is the narrator of The Tilted World audiobook that was written by Tom Franklin

Tom Franklin is the New York Times bestselling author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. He teaches in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

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Narrator Brian D'Arcy James
Length 11 hours 31 minutes
Author Tom Franklin
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Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 01, 2013
ISBN 9780062190628

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The publisher of the The Tilted World is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical

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Goodreads Reviews

karen

September 15, 2018

this was just beautiful. i knew i was going to love it, having read two books by franklin and one by fennelly (and for me to give four stars to a poetry book is unusual), but it really exceeded my expectations. and for those of you who are wary, as i usually am, of books written by two authors, know that in this case, when both of the authors are excellent at their craft, it can be a really magical experience.it takes place in 1927, when the mississippi river is about to burst through its levees and flood 27,000 square miles of land, destroying everything in its path. this year is also at the height of prohibition, when revenue agents were roaming the land, searching for illegal stills and grabbing up bootleggers. moonshine, moonshine everywhere….this is kind of a romeo and juliet story with bootleggers. we have dixie clay, married to a slimy, cheating bootlegger named jesse, who has swept her away to a lonely existence and given her a son to whom she devoted all of herself until he died of smallpox. desperate for distraction, she begins making the 'shine herself, while jesse becomes the businessman, taking long trips to "make sales" while she is left behind, desolate and lonely on the edge of a town that looks down on her for her illegal activities, while still buying her wares. her life is routine, mourning, and regret.ingersoll is a man who grew up in an orphanage, went directly from there into military service, and from there into a job as a revenue agent, with no pauses for family or companionship. his closest friend is fellow-agent and former officer ham, with whom he comes to hobnob, a town in which two revenue agents have mysteriously disappeared, and where they expect to find the bootlegger responsible.hobnob is a town aflutter with problems before the agents even arrive. with the river rising and fear of a flood rising with it, a group of bankers out of new orleans had offered money to hobnob to allow them to buy the town, clear it out, and deliberately flood it to relieve the water pressure and hopefully prevent their own land from flooding. but hobnob was torn with indecision, with a bunch of down-on-their-luck farmers who felt they should struggle and die on the same land where their parents had stubbled and died, and no one was able to agree on how the money was to be distributed. so the offer was rejected, but the threat of the flood is still very real to everyone living along the river. rumors of saboteurs and stolen dynamite are flowing and those who can are evacuating, taking their children and valuables away from the danger. when ham and ingersoll arrive in town, they walk into the aftermath of a store looting, which has left behind several dead bodies, and one very alive baby. they can't risk blowing their cover, but ingersoll has a soft spot for orphans, and when he learns that the orphanage has been evacuated, he asks around town and learns about dixie clay, a woman who has lost her son, and who might be very glad to have one to care for again. ingersoll brings her the baby, and is struck by her beauty and demeanor, not realizing that it is her husband they are in town to track down, nor that she is the one making the 'shine.and the waters rise.and i gotta say, i am really shocked by the mediocre response to this one so far, because i loved every page of it. they created characters that i cared about, they resurrected a largely forgotten tragedy and gave it immediacy and poignancy, they layered the story with human frailty and strength, with betrayal and hope, with stark realities and fairy-tale possibilities. it is lyrical and poetic but also harsh. it just…sings.like this:She wasn't the same proud girl she'd been, prettiest in all the piney woods, or so folks said, engaged to the prettiest fellow. She saw now that she'd married Jesse while knowing only the pretty part of him. She'd read so many books she'd simply filled in the rest.that says so much to me, in so few words. not just about the state of her marriage, but also the kind of person she is - accustomed to a certain treatment because of her smalltown beauty, dreamy and romantic and ambitious because of her bookishness… but it is so economical. and affecting.and every scene with dixie clay and willy, her foundling son, is just beautiful. i am attributing all of these scenes to fennelly's pen, on the strength of what i read in her poetry book tender hooks, which was all about motherhood, and equally lovely. That's right, God: give me a son and then set a match to him.it's hard not to fall in love with ham, with his bluff attitudes and his appetites and humor. and it's hard not to root for dixie clay and ingersoll. and the constant rising of the river forming the backdrop to their story, while the panic and resignation and plots of others weaves through and through…for me, it is an easy five stars. and i would love to see more collaborations from these two lovebird-writers, please.i said please, so it has to happen now. those are the rules.also a huge thank you to joel for stealing his mom's copy and sending it to me. i am mailing it back, although it wounds me to do so...come to my blog!

Candi

April 26, 2017

The year is 1927, the year of the Great Mississippi Flood. "The levee at Mounds Landing, near Greenville, Mississippi, collapsed, and a wall of water one hundred feet high and with twice the force of Niagara Falls scooped out the Delta. It flattened almost a million homes, drowning twenty-seven thousand square miles, sometimes in up to thirty feet of water, and the water remained for four months. Over 330,000 people were rescued from trees, roofs, and levees. At a time when the federal budget was around three billion dollars, the flood caused an estimated one billion dollars’ worth of property damage."Authors Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, husband and wife, teamed up to write this absorbing fictional account based on one of the largest national disasters of all time. It is also Prohibition, and bootleggers are rampant, with the fictional town of Hobnob boasting one of the most prosperous stills in the region. Wed to Jesse Holliver at the young age of sixteen, Dixie Clay realized she may have gotten in over her head. Before long, Dixie stumbles upon a still on her own property and is determined not to sit by and feign ignorance. Soon her own moonshine "became the best in Washington County. So clear you could read a newspaper through it."Where there are bootleggers, there are bound to be federal revenuers. When two revenuers sent to Hobnob to investigate rumors of a large still turn up missing, Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover sends in a pair of his most principled undercover revenue agents to find out what went wrong. Agents Ham Johnson and Ted Ingersoll travel to Hobnob passing themselves off as engineers tasked with inspecting the threatened levees of the Mississippi. I loved these guys! We learn a bit about their backgrounds – especially that of Ingersoll. He really made the book memorable for me. Both are the type of men you would want at your side during an emergency. They’re tough, dependable, and honorable. Ingersoll grew up as an orphan and is definitely the more tenderhearted of the pair. When he and his partner come across an abandoned baby, he takes matters into his own hands and it becomes his personal mission to find a home for his new charge. His interactions with the baby will melt your heart! Ham is harder to read, but we trust him just as much. He’s not one for sentimentality and just wants to get the job done. As a team, the two couldn’t be more perfectly matched. "Ham could tease out a man’s secret through cunning, buffoonery, or charm. Ingersoll could learn it by disappearing, an oak of a man blending into the forest until you forgot the oak had ears. Together, separately but together, they could always find the rotten apple, the rotten worm in the rotten apple."Dixie Clay, too, is a character that grew on me. One can feel for her, stuck in a marriage with a man whose personality turns out to be just as contrary as his two different-colored eyes. She is trapped, far from her home, and with no friends in town. Tragedy has struck at the core of her being and left her a changed woman as well. "Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn’t be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living.” With the waters rising and danger imminent, Dixie will have to make some choices and will need to ask herself who she can trust. With the risk of an impending flood, the whisper of a betrayal to the town’s safety, the menace of saboteurs, and the violence provoked in those with the most to lose – or perhaps gain – the plot moves at a fast and exciting pace. The only thing missing for me personally was learning about the aftermath of this historical event. I felt that the last section of the book could have focused on this a bit more, rather than simply tying up loose ends with the fictional characters. It also seemed a tad bit ‘easy’ for those involved, considering the enormity of the event. Regardless, it was a very compelling read and one that I would certainly recommend. I am even more enthusiastic than ever about reading another of Tom Franklin’s books – Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – that has been gathering dust on my bookshelf!

Lawyer

November 15, 2013

The Tilted World: Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly's Tag Team NovelI've followed the career of Tom Franklin from his initial anthology Poachers. He is a dizzying wonder of the genre that has become known as "Grit Lit." These are the stories of the Rough South hearkening back to Harry Crews, Tim McLaurin and others. He's provided the introduction to Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader that gives about the best explanation of this growing subgenre of Southern Literature I've read.Read through his collected works following Poachers--Hell at the Breech based on The Mitcham County War in Clarke County, Alabama; Smonk, in which a vile dwarf vows to kill every man in another small Alabama town, and you wonder where this pleasant man with a winning smile comes up with his ideas. Franklin mellowed somewhat with Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. In fact, I told a close goodread friend I thought this was Franklin's effort at a breakthrough novel, winning a wider audience.In short, I admire Franklin's skill as a writer greatly. However, as an avid reader, I've noted women don't fare too well in his previous stories and novels. His tales generally comprise the world of men. It's not that they are absent. In Smonk, ladies abound, but only as widows as Smonk sets out to weed out the male population. Now, there's an exceptionally tough young woman named Evangeline on Smonk's trail. However, let's just say, as a woman she has some serious issues, capable of the same degree of violence as Smonk.You'll find a fairly substantial female role in Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Unfortunately she was a murder victim.Now, Tom Franklin seems to have gotten in touch with his feminine side. Don't be fooled, although goodreads shows Franklin as the sole author. His co-author is his wife Beth Ann Fennelly, noted poet, head of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi (Tom's boss?) and the author of Great with Child: Letters to a Young MotherI've had the pleasure of meeting Tom Franklin upon the debut of his last three novels. Chatting with him is always a pleasure. Recently I saw him at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, excitedly asking Daniel Woodrell to sign HIS latest, The Maid's Version. I asked Franklin how was it co-writing The Tilted World: A Novel with his wife. He gave one of his trademark grins and said, "We survived." Indeed they did. And before we get to the meat of the coconut, I hope this won't be their last collaboration.Here's the writing team: Franklin & FennellySet in the small river town of Hobnob, Mississippi, during the Great Flood of 1927, Franklin provides the grit we've come to expect. However, the star of this novel is Dixie Clay Holliver. She was originally a Birmingham, Alabama, girl. But charming Jesse Holliver began to call on her in her family's home when Dixie was just twelve. Holliver dressed well. He claimed to be a wealthy trapper earning great profits trapping furs.Dixie's family consented to Holliver's proposal when she turned sixteen. On reaching Hobnob, Dixie Clay learned she was married to one of the biggest bootleggers who business extended from Mississippi, up through Tennesse, and over to Alabama. Although Dixie would be a jewel for most men, Jesse was a sporting man, not about to abandon his visits to the ladies of all the gentlemen's night visits in the area.Dixie's a practical woman. She learns fast. It would be best if she took to tending the still while Jesse took over just the distribution. Dixie Clay's a crack shot and finds she manufactures the best whiskey ever produced in the area. She adds class to the product, bottling the whiskey in labelled bottles. Business is just fine.However, Jacob, the son Jesse makes on her dies young. She is humiliated to track Jesse down at one of the local sporting houses, asking the Madame for her husband to come down. Jesse's answer is simple. There'll be other babies.But more is coming to Hobnob than the Great Flood. Two Prohibition Agents have paid a call on Jesse. He claims business as usual telling Dixie he bribed them. Dixie suspects Jesse just may be a murderer because those two Agents have gone missing according to folks in town.Neither Jesse or Dixie Clay know that Herbert Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce, who has been sent by Calvin Coolidge to head up flood control and rescue operations, has sent out two unbribable Prohibition Agents, Ted Engersoll and Ham Johnson to find the missing agents. The two have been partners since watching each others backs during World War One. The men are posing as levee engineers to cover their real reason for coming to Hobnob. The Great Humanitarian? Hoover will be swept into the White House as a result of his presence during the Great Flood.Along the way, Ted, who was raised an orphan finds a dead family. Only a small boy, an infant survives. Ted checks out the local orphanage, finds it unacceptable, and fosters the child until by chance he crosses the path of Dixie Clay. Hearing Dixie has recently lost her own child, what better solution could Ted have found than a bereaved mother. Ted leaves the child having no idea this new mother is the best bootlegger around.Ted and Ham fuss over Ted's delaying their mission by rescuing the child. Ham will fuss even more when Ted begins to slip away, drawn to Dixie Clay whom he finds beautiful.As the river rages, the levees are tested. Will they hold? The danger of saboteurs is real. Should somebody from the Arkansas side blow Hobnobs levee it's the Mississippi side that will flood. Jesse's in the thick of it as you would expect. Business is business.The river and its tributaries are at their most treacherous. The Indians called it "The Place Where the World Tilts. Hobnob, filled with refugees from upriver, is a tragedy waiting to happen. Just one image of the aftermath of The Great FloodFranklin and Fennelly keep the pace fast and furious. These two writers have created a fine and satisfying read you will hate to see come to an end. This is a team of literary soul mates.This is a solid 4.5 Star read. The only thing preventing that remaining .5 is that by focusing on the story of this small band of main characters, the full impact of the Great Flood is lost, Franklin and Fennelly's fine historical prologue nevertheless present.My opinion is further influenced by having read Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry immediately following my read of this fine novel. John M. Barry has written one of the most enthralling histories I've read in years.For what it's worth, read The Tilted World: A Novel first. Take a break. Then delve into Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.

Snotchocheez

July 25, 2015

I've consistently sung the praises of Tom Franklin's lofty brand of deep Southern (US) fiction. From his Grand Guignol splatter-fest historical fiction (Hell at the Breach and Smonk), to his short stories (Poachers), to his contemporary look at race relations, cloaked in a murder mystery (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter) I've enjoyed everything he's written. I was really leery, though, about The Tilted World, and put off reading it for nearly a year, mostly because I just could not envision a collaborative effort with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly. (The above cover didn't do much to assuage my fears this was gonna be some emasculated watered-down chick lit-ty version of Franklin).My fears were (mostly) unfounded. This is (for the first 3/4ths of the book, anyway) a superb page-turner and an informative (if fictional) account of one of the worst disasters ever to befall the South in the Twentieth Century: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The novel also features the first time Tom Franklin has penned a strong female leading character (the memorable moonshiner Dixie Clay) and a romance (between she and revenuer Ted Ingersoll, sent to tiny Hobnob, MS to enforce the Volstead Act and investigate the disappearance of two fellow federal agents).The writing between tag-teamers Franklin and Fennelly is seamless (which shocked me a little, given Franklin's singularly unique, typically male-centric voice). The romantic elements, though a weensy bit contrived, are, for the most part, believable, and make even me (the Romance-phobe) cheer on the unlikely match of cop and criminal. Plus, even if romance doesn't float your boat, there are enough juicy plot elements concerning the flood and the government's response to it (evoking memories of Katrina) to make you overlook the cheesier stuff.

LA Cantrell

August 30, 2018

Tom Franklin's books have always pleased me, and this one did not disappoint. Living in New Orleans, the idea of massive levee failures and widespread flooding is something that I can relate to, and the background tension that Franklin built in to the novel was palpable. The basic facts are all correct here, describing the massive flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927, a time when TV news wasn't around to communicate the risks. These were the days of Prohibition, where bootlegging moonshine was common and travel by horse and wagon was the norm. The scene where Ing's horse, Horace, feels reverberations from the levee underfoot, while brief, spoke to me. He painted that frightening suspense throughout the novel quite well.If you've never read any of Franklin's works, I would recommend Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter before this one. The characters here were not as complex. The protagonist, Ingersoll, was absolutely loveable, but he had no bad traits whatsoever, nor did Dixie Clay. Her rotten husband, on the other hand, had no positive attributes to speak of. Had he uttered a mustachioed MUAH-HA-HA as he tied Dixie to a train track, I would not have been surprised. Tom Franklin co-authored this book with his poet wife, and I cannot help but think she softened things up a bit much for the average fan of Tom Franklin. Or at least for me.Franklin's Hell at the Breech, also based on real history, was a bit too harsh with bloody violence thrown in, seemingly, for no good reason. The Tilted World came across like its moonshine - a bit too full of sugar. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter was for me the perfect Goldilocks work from this author - just right. The author's portrayal of Civil Rights Era issues and lingering small town suspicion was absolutely outstanding in Crooked Letter. Like the densely sugar-laden moonshine that Dixie Clay concocted in this particular story, I found this it too sweet for my liking.

Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede

April 22, 2019

Such a beautiful story, a love story between a revenue agent and a bootlegger. I borrowed the book from the library, but I also had the audio version with the plan of listening at work and read at home. But, I ended up listening to the book since the narrator (Brian D'Arcy James) and the story worked so well together. I just love listening to a great book that becomes even greater with the right narrator. As for the story. I love reading stories set in the 20s, and in this case, the story takes place in 1927 and the Mississippi is about to flood. Two revenue agents have disappeared in the little town of Hobnob and now federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson has been sent to find out what happened to them. Meanwhile, Dixie Clay is worried that her husband is involved with the revenue agents disappearance. The Tilted World is my very first Tom Franklin (and Beth Ann Fennelly) book, but I have Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin at home and I plan to read it. I quite liked The Tilted World, the writing, the story, and the characters were great. And the addition of the baby that Ted Ingersoll found and tried to find a good home to was a wonderful addition to the story.

Carol

January 26, 2014

Even though I read and loved Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, I wasn’t sure that this one would be as interesting because it’s about a 1927 flood in Mississippi. I shouldn’t have been concerned. Tom Franklin is a wonderful storyteller. Apparently his wife is too. They collaborated on this novel. This was a well-researched historical novel about a natural disaster that forever altered the lives of countless flood victims along the banks of the Mississippi. Surprisingly, it is also an unlikely but very engaging tale of a love story between a revenuer, a bootlegger and an abandoned baby. I found the novel to be a beautiful blend of resilience and gentleness. In the end, I was also enlightened about a largely forgotten tragedy in American history.I received a free copy of this book for review through the Goodreads giveaway.

Josh

November 29, 2015

Great job Tom.....or great job Beth Ann.....who knows? Regardless of the author, or combination, I liked it. My guess is that the Mrs. had much to do with this work. Tom has proven to me he can rip my guts out and make me smile (Poachers is a personal favorite) and he has a soft side as well (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter has emotions out the wazoo), but something about this one gave me a different take? Did the barrel age on a different rack or was it a different mash bill? I suspect a little of both.The story is a somewhat predictable tale of polar opposite ends of the citizenry colliding, clashing, and finding their common places together. Set against the historic backdrop of the too often unknown flood of 1927 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M...). Complete with moonshiners, river people, town gossip, and revenuers on a mission to wreak havoc where need be. This is semi-grit lit that you can feel comfortable recommending to your friends without fear of them thinking you're a sicko (which is sometimes half the fun). A warm up if you will. Great story, good pacing, and just enough rough and tumble to keep me moving along downstream (or through what used to be a stream and is now spread out to Kingdom come). Read along- just don't expect the Franklin from Smonk.

Camie

August 24, 2018

This story featuring Dixie Clay and her philandering, ruthless husband Jesse Holliver, both bootleggers who are being hunted by two "larger than life"revenuers Ham and Ingersoll, takes place during the pretty much forgotten Mississippi Delta flood of 1927. Here's a quote straight from the book that pretty much covers it all : (possible spoiler alert) "This is a story with murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, dynamite and deluge. A ruthless husband, a troubled uncle, a dangerous flapper, a loyal partner. A woman married to the wrong husband, who died a little everyday. A man who felt invisible. But most of all, this is a love story. This is the story of how we became a family." Liked it much more than expected which is always a good surprise. Ham and Ingersoll are characters you'd like to meet and definitely ones you'd want on your side in troubled times. Read for On The Southern Literary Trail Sept choice 4.5 stars

Mississippi Library

May 15, 2014

Sometimes books by two authors seem choppy or poorly written. This is far from the case with The Tilted World. It's no longer business as usual for a husband and wife pair of bootleggers when revenuers come to town. They're following rumors of a big still and looking for their fellow agents who have mysteriously disappeared. Set against the backdrop of the Great Flood of 1927, the story is intriguing, the language is downright lyrical, and the characters captured our attention from the first page. Thoroughly enjoyed this one from beginning to end.

Rob

June 27, 2013

As usual, I received this book free in exchange for a review. Despite that kind consideration, my candid thoughts appear below.Our story begins with a bootlegger's wife in the 1930s. Her world is a city on the brink of disaster as the flooding Mississippi threatens to surge over its banks and turn her home into a lake.In general I tend to be rather hard on historical fiction. A lot of what is on offer from that genre is rather forced and authors seem to just be decorating a modern story with a few timely tidbits. In contrast, The Tilted World is a wonderfully rich and well-integrated story. The authors have married together magnificently both narrative and time and language to create a truly memorable tale of life, love and loss. Also, as I understand it the co-author of this novel is a poet and it's abundantly evident in some of the turns of phrase used in this novel. It reads, in many cases like a much more literary work.To sum up, a wonderfully evocative and well-crafted tale. Well worth the time.

Kathy

November 26, 2022

This was interesting material the authors covered in this book that documents life and survival during the most challenging circumstances surrounding historic flood of 1927.Library Loan

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