Four powerful, controversial, highly acclaimed novels set in the Deep South during the 1950s and early 1960s. These bold, provocative stories confront politics, race, crime, and sex head-on, reflecting a turbulent era—and leaving a lasting impression. All four novels are back in print for the first time in over sixty years and collected together for the first time ever in one massive ebook.
TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE – Walter Whitney
A savage novel of raw emotion, sudden violence, and frightening lust—so daring it was banned and pilloried upon its 1957 release. Set among Southern migrants chasing factory jobs in the city, it follows Fran, a woman who exploits desperate men until she becomes entangled with Leroy Landers, whose backwoods rage erupts when he demands more than she can give. Condemned by the National Office of Decent Literature, the book vanished for decades.
IT WAS LIKE THIS – Anne Goodwin Winslow
A powerful romantic drama set on an isolated Mississippi pecan plantation in the late 1800s. Praised by the Lexington Herald as “a tiny masterpiece of style,” the novel explores love, resentment, and family fracture as a widow’s household is torn apart by unspoken desire and difficult choices.
GIRL FROM TOWN – Jack Sheridan
A city woman trapped on a Montana farm, torn between loyalty to her husband and the dangerous pull of the life she left behind, as desire and resentment push toward heartbreak and violence.
SWAMP NYMPH – John B. Thompson
In the sultry Louisiana swamps, a desperate fugitive encounters a woman whose raw sexuality and danger threaten ecstatic ruin for them both.
Anne Goodwin Winslow, Jack Sheridan, John B. Thompson, Walter Whitney /
Anthologies, Crime Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Sexy Fiction
