“A smart, rich country noir” from the acclaimed author Kentucky
Straight and The Good Brother (Stewart O’Nan, bestselling author
of Henry, Himself). Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary
talent, whose work has been called “lean and brilliant” (The New
York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff,
Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He’s been awarded the Whiting
Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts
and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work
of fiction in nearly two decades, Country Dark is a taut, compelling
novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker,
a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls
in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don’t have much,
they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family
is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes
everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits
in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose
social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British
aristocracy, Country Dark is a novel that blends the best of Larry
Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around a man
who just wants to protect those he loves. It reintroduces the vital
and absolutely distinct voice of Chris Offutt, a voice we’ve been
missing for years. “[A] fine homage to a pocket of the country
that’s as beautiful as it is prone to tragedy.”—The Wall Street
Journal “A pleasure all around.”—Daniel Woodrell, author of
Winter’s Bone
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ISBN
9780802146168
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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