Desperation Road: Michael Farris Smith by Adelaide Festival published on 2018-04-03T06:30:56Z Michael Farris Smith is the award-winning author of the novels Desperation Road, Rivers, and most recently The Fighter. What his books share is the broken down landscape of the American South, the hardscrabble lives of its inhabitants and the inevitable violence of its men. Described at times as a Southern noir, Farris Smith’s prose is spare and quite beautiful. Chair Chris Flynn.
