Edge of Dark Water

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King -- a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale.

May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.

Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.

Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood.

Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.

Critic reviews

"Joe R. Lansdale has a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace."—The New York Times Book Review

"Scenes that stand your hair on end while you fall out of your chair laughing."—Chicago Sun-Times, on Leather Maiden

"Lansdale has created a landscape of broken dreams, skewed personalities and hope still clinging to the inside of the Pandora's box of problems they all share. . . . He has been called a folklorist, and Leather Maiden makes you want to sit on a porch listening to him spin a yarn that you know doesn't contain a true sentence."—Los Angeles Times

"One of the greatest yarn spinners of his generation: fearless, earthy, original, manic and dreadfully funny."—Dallas Morning News, on Vanilla Ride

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...is worth a listen if you don't mind a little corn with your fiction. i minded, but lansdale's writing and a superb narrator kept my attention until the very end. will keep an eye out for lansdale's next.

Another GREAT Lansdale.

Where does Edge of Dark Water rank among all the audiobooks you???ve listened to so far?

I have listened to almost 2000 just from audible alone. I cannot rank them in any order because if I like an author his or her stories cannot be compared to anyone else's story.
Lansdale writes in a way that makes me want to be a part of the story - other authors write stories that make me ever so glad I am not in the story (and not in thier heads!)
I can say this - if you don't like Lansdale's stories you would most likely be someone I found boring. And you would think that no great loss.

Lansdale Enough Said

Lansdale never disappoints and he certainly does not disappoint with EDGE OF DARK WATER. Great story, very entertaining.

Excellent!

Joe Lansdale knocks it out of the park again with this very entertaining and fast moving novel. As a previous reviewer noted, it is rather like "Huckleberry Finn meets Deliverance," full of dark twists and turns. While I was not initially thrilled with the narration, I found either the narration improved considerably as time went on, or the story was so captivating it no longer bothered me.

Another great Lansdale novel

Narrator did a spectacular job. Her voice really goes with the story. Really enjoyed the Huck Finn aspects of the story. Memberable characters.