"Nineteen-year-old Carver is poised to rise above his humble origins as the son of the Okie sharecropper: he's getting an education, and he's begun a secret romance with Donna, a prominent landlord's daughter. He can't help falling for her unearthly beauty and her passion for life that rivals Tommy's own. But Tommy's father hates Donna's father, and the feeling is mutual. Everybody knows that star-crossed lovers never have happy endings -- and yet they've never seen explosive parties like these. Filled with lust and brutality, Cropper's Cabin is a hair-raising thriller. Jim Thompson does what no writer has done better before or since - captures the hardscrabble existence of small-town American lives set to blow"--