An Exile

by Madison Jones, Dean Bornstein (Illustrator)

The story of a middle-aged man's exile from his former values and so from himself.

139 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 1967

About the author

Madison Percy Jones was a novelist from Nashville, Tennessee. He published almost a dozen novels in his lifetime, and is considered "one of the major figures of contemporary southern letters."

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A backwoods southern noir about moonshiners and a sheriff caught in a downward spiral. It’s a short novel, and bits of the book felt underdeveloped--not least of all the ending. Still, the prose was very good. I kept thinking that, given the sheriff’s child-like lack of willpower, there was a neglected potential for the surreal, or for out-and-out absurdism, here.