"The basis for the classic movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Novels that inspired great films"--Cover.
Davis Grubb Libri
Grubb crea racconti oscuri che traggono spunto dall'osservazione delle difficoltà economiche e sociali all'interno della società americana. Le sue opere esplorano spesso la psicologia dei personaggi che lottano con minacce esterne e demoni interiori. Sebbene la sua carriera artistica visiva sia stata interrotta dal daltonismo, Grubb ha integrato elementi disegnati nella sua scrittura attraverso schizzi. Il suo romanzo più celebrato è diventato un classico sia in forma letteraria che cinematografica, e il suo stile distintivo continua a risuonare.






"Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452.32 - the result of his having salted away his meager earnings in the Prisoner's Work-and-Hope Savings Plan of the local bank. With his friends Johnny Jesus and Lee Cottrill, he plans to open a general store that will compete with the company store in Stonecoal, West Virginia.". "Unfortunately, banker Homer Grindstaff, prison guard Uncle Doc Council, and Sheriff Duane Ewing have no intention of allowing Mattie to realize his ambitions. Mattie's efforts to cash his check set a deadly pursuit in motion and introduce the reader to a host of colorful characters and a vividly recreated regional and historical background. Good and evil meet head-on in this novel that is, by turns, warm and humorous, rousing and tumultuous."--BOOK JACKET.
