The life of the ""flatwoods"" Tennesseeans forms the background for a youthful love affair. Here the omnipresent Ku Klux still holds sway, here is violence of action and emotion, here negro mistresses, hot-blooded, hard drinking men, sharp tongued religious women, virulent gossip and strange situations. Though the publishers maintain it is unlike Faulkner or Caldwell, yet this is your market.