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- 224pagine
- 8 ore di lettura
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KNOCKEMSTIFF is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line. The stories in KNOCKEMSTIFF are simple and compact, blunt and brutal, but are also infused with a deep sympathy for the incapacitating loneliness of poverty, neglect and severely limited horizons. KNOCKEMSTIFF is a human, very funny and unforgettable debut from a stunning new voice in American fiction.
Acquisto del libro
Knockemstiff, English edition, Donald Ray Pollock
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2009
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Donald Ray Pollock
- Editore
- Random House UK
- Pubblicato
- 2009
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0099520974
- ISBN13
- 9780099520979
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Gialli & Thriller, Gialli, Narrativa contemporanea, Racconti, Horror, USA, Omicidi, Letteratura Americana, Sessualità e intimità, Romanzi sociali, Violenza, Racconti horror, Desiderio, Droghe, Speranza, Destino, Solitudine, Povertà, Narrazione, Gothic del Sud
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- KNOCKEMSTIFF is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line. The stories in KNOCKEMSTIFF are simple and compact, blunt and brutal, but are also infused with a deep sympathy for the incapacitating loneliness of poverty, neglect and severely limited horizons. KNOCKEMSTIFF is a human, very funny and unforgettable debut from a stunning new voice in American fiction.